Re: port 751 and port 745 and 736

2000-10-19 Thread Tim Haynes
Marco Giardini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > after all the reading on nterm, i've found on my server (using nmap) > that the following port are open: > > 736 > 751 > 745 > > since no kerberos is installed, i'd like to know what are the > services on these ports and how to remove them. Do a `net

Re: port 751 and port 745 and 736

2000-10-19 Thread Tim Haynes
Marco Giardini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > after all the reading on nterm, i've found on my server (using nmap) > that the following port are open: > > 736 > 751 > 745 > > since no kerberos is installed, i'd like to know what are the > services on these ports and how to remove them. Do a `ne

Re: Bug#75144: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Sergio Brandano
... what a mess! > This does indeed make things clear. > Thank you, a lot... This was referred to the explanations, of course. Thanks! Sergio

Re: Bug#75144: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Sergio Brandano
This does indeed make things clear. Thank you, a lot... Sorry Paul, I believe I misunderstood you because of ... of your "hey - stop that", which I understood as the subject of your mail rather than your (ambiguous) no-spam trick. It's ok ;-) I feel better now. Sergio

Re: Bug#75144: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread hey - stop that
Okay , maybe that was a lame way to put it, but i did indeed mean that what nmap tells you is not authorative and we already determined that it was not about nterm (whatever that is) anyway. /paul (xcuse the no-history, blame 'mail':)

port 751 and port 745 and 736

2000-10-19 Thread Marco Giardini
after all the reading on nterm, i've found on my server (using nmap) that the following port are open: 736 751 745 since no kerberos is installed, i'd like to know what are the services on these ports and how to remove them. Thanks .oesse. -- ---

Re: Bug#75144: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Brian Johnson
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 06:02:14PM +0100, Sergio Brandano wrote: > >actually i dont think it is really relevant what nterm really is, cos > >that is just something nmap came up with. > > It is relevant because it is a tcp service that I may NOT want to > give or use, because it is running on my

Re: Bug#75144: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Sergio Brandano
>nterm (no terminal) is a meta-package that doesnt install any >terminalemulator. this is the default for most installs > >actually i dont think it is really relevant what nterm really is, cos >that is just something nmap came up with. > >/paul It is relevant because it is a tcp service that I m

Re: Bug#75144: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread hey - stop that
nterm (no terminal) is a meta-package that doesnt install any terminalemulator. this is the default for most installs actually i dont think it is really relevant what nterm really is, cos that is just something nmap came up with. /paul

Re: Bug#75144: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Sergio Brandano
>> Could you please tell me the name of the package that nterm belongs to? >None. It is probably even no linux program. It is mentioned at: > http://www.sdesign.com/securitytest/portlist.html So, where does nterm come from? Sergio

Re: Bug#75144: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Christian Hammers
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 05:11:15PM +0100, Sergio Brandano wrote: > >nterm: is totally wrong as it has nothing to do with gnome and is just > >another > > programm that listens on this port on some machines. > > (the term was found in some /etc/services) > Could you please tell me the

Re: Bug#75144: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Sergio Brandano
> BTW, I forwarded your bug to gnome-devel-list. Well done. Thanks. Sergio

Re: Bug#75144: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Sergio Brandano
>nterm: is totally wrong as it has nothing to do with gnome and is just another > programm that listens on this port on some machines. > (the term was found in some /etc/services) Could you please tell me the name of the package that nterm belongs to? Sergio

Re: Bug#75144: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Sergio Brandano
... what a mess! > This does indeed make things clear. > Thank you, a lot... This was referred to the explanations, of course. Thanks! Sergio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#75144: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Sergio Brandano
This does indeed make things clear. Thank you, a lot... Sorry Paul, I believe I misunderstood you because of ... of your "hey - stop that", which I understood as the subject of your mail rather than your (ambiguous) no-spam trick. It's ok ;-) I feel better now. Sergio -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: Bug#75144: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread hey - stop that
Okay , maybe that was a lame way to put it, but i did indeed mean that what nmap tells you is not authorative and we already determined that it was not about nterm (whatever that is) anyway. /paul (xcuse the no-history, blame 'mail':) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

port 751 and port 745 and 736

2000-10-19 Thread Marco Giardini
after all the reading on nterm, i've found on my server (using nmap) that the following port are open: 736 751 745 since no kerberos is installed, i'd like to know what are the services on these ports and how to remove them. Thanks .oesse. -- --

Re: Bug#75144: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Christian Marillat
"CH" == Christian Hammers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] CH> Argh :-) Your're all still looking for the wrong thing: CH> nterm: is totally wrong as it has nothing to do with gnome and is just another CH>programm that listens on this port on some machines. CH>(the term wa

Re: Bug#75144: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Christian Hammers
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 03:53:37PM +0200, Christian Marillat wrote: > I find nothing in the latest (0.5.4) orbit source tree with rgrep > {nterm,1026} * Argh :-) Your're all still looking for the wrong thing: nterm: is totally wrong as it has nothing to do with gnome and is just another pr

php3 security update breaks imp webmailer

2000-10-19 Thread Thomas Gebhardt
Hi, just want to report that the update php3 3.0.16-2potato -> 3.0.17-0potato2 breaks my webmailer (package imp 2.2.3) Well, it does not break imp completely, only sending attachments with the webmail interface fails (apache-ssl error.log reports a segfault). The flaw disappears when downgradin

Re: Bug#75144: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Brian Johnson
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 06:02:14PM +0100, Sergio Brandano wrote: > >actually i dont think it is really relevant what nterm really is, cos > >that is just something nmap came up with. > > It is relevant because it is a tcp service that I may NOT want to > give or use, because it is running on my

Re: Bug#75144: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Christian Marillat
"SB" == Sergio Brandano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I suspect it's determined more by the corba layer, or something of that >> ilk, at startup-time. It would be more to the point if you did >> $ sudo netstat -pant | grep LIST | grep -Ei 'gnome|session' >> >> I think it's something Sergio

Re: Bug#75144: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Sergio Brandano
>nterm (no terminal) is a meta-package that doesnt install any >terminalemulator. this is the default for most installs > >actually i dont think it is really relevant what nterm really is, cos >that is just something nmap came up with. > >/paul It is relevant because it is a tcp service that I

Re: Bug#75144: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread hey - stop that
nterm (no terminal) is a meta-package that doesnt install any terminalemulator. this is the default for most installs actually i dont think it is really relevant what nterm really is, cos that is just something nmap came up with. /paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: Bug#75144: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Sergio Brandano
>> Could you please tell me the name of the package that nterm belongs to? >None. It is probably even no linux program. It is mentioned at: > http://www.sdesign.com/securitytest/portlist.html So, where does nterm come from? Sergio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Bug#75144: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Christian Hammers
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 05:11:15PM +0100, Sergio Brandano wrote: > >nterm: is totally wrong as it has nothing to do with gnome and is just another > > programm that listens on this port on some machines. > > (the term was found in some /etc/services) > Could you please tell me the nam

Re: Bug#75144: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Sergio Brandano
> BTW, I forwarded your bug to gnome-devel-list. Well done. Thanks. Sergio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#75144: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Sergio Brandano
>nterm: is totally wrong as it has nothing to do with gnome and is just another > programm that listens on this port on some machines. > (the term was found in some /etc/services) Could you please tell me the name of the package that nterm belongs to? Sergio -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Bug#75144: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Christian Marillat
"CH" == Christian Hammers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] CH> Argh :-) Your're all still looking for the wrong thing: CH> nterm: is totally wrong as it has nothing to do with gnome and is just another CH>programm that listens on this port on some machines. CH>(the term wa

Re: Bug#75144: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Sergio Brandano
>I suspect it's determined more by the corba layer, or something of that >ilk, at startup-time. It would be more to the point if you did > $ sudo netstat -pant | grep LIST | grep -Ei 'gnome|session' > >I think it's something Sergio's running as part of gnome-session, if not >the session its

Re: Bug#75144: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Sergio Brandano
>If it's configurable, it should default to Off. (Like it does here, >somehow, really.) I agree. > gnome-session 1.2.2.1-3 from woody I am running gnome-session 1.0.55-2 from woody on a ppc. Chances are that it is default to off in this later release. Sergio

Re: Bug#75144: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Christian Hammers
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 03:53:37PM +0200, Christian Marillat wrote: > I find nothing in the latest (0.5.4) orbit source tree with rgrep {nterm,1026} * Argh :-) Your're all still looking for the wrong thing: nterm: is totally wrong as it has nothing to do with gnome and is just another prog

php3 security update breaks imp webmailer

2000-10-19 Thread Thomas Gebhardt
Hi, just want to report that the update php3 3.0.16-2potato -> 3.0.17-0potato2 breaks my webmailer (package imp 2.2.3) Well, it does not break imp completely, only sending attachments with the webmail interface fails (apache-ssl error.log reports a segfault). The flaw disappears when downgradi

Re: Bug#75144: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Christian Marillat
"SB" == Sergio Brandano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I suspect it's determined more by the corba layer, or something of that >> ilk, at startup-time. It would be more to the point if you did >> $ sudo netstat -pant | grep LIST | grep -Ei 'gnome|session' >> >> I think it's something Sergi

Re: Bug#75144: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Tim Haynes
Christian Marillat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "SB" == Sergio Brandano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > SB> Christian, > > SB> I see that you do not have any service in port 1026. > SB> Are you running GNOME at all? > > I did "rgrep -w nterm *" and "rgrep -w 1026 *" in gnome-libs and g

Re: Bug#75144: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Christian Marillat
"SB" == Sergio Brandano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SB> Great. So, you are running GNOME, but you have no nterm service SB> and gnome-session listening to it. And you are running Debian SB> (potato/woody?). Please report the version of gnome-session SB> installed on your system too. Did y

Re: Bug#75144: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Sergio Brandano
Great. So, you are running GNOME, but you have no nterm service and gnome-session listening to it. And you are running Debian (potato/woody?). Please report the version of gnome-session installed on your system too. Did you do anything to avoid this, or it comes straight out of the box? The

Re: Bug#75144: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Christian Marillat
"SB" == Sergio Brandano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SB> Christian, SB> I see that you do not have any service in port 1026. SB> Are you running GNOME at all? I did "rgrep -w nterm *" and "rgrep -w 1026 *" in gnome-libs and gnome-core source tree and I find nothing. Christian

Re: Bug#75144: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Christian Marillat
"SB" == Sergio Brandano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SB> Christian, SB> I see that you do not have any service in port 1026. SB> Are you running GNOME at all? Yes of course. Christian

Re: Bug#75144: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Sergio Brandano
Christian, I see that you do not have any service in port 1026. Are you running GNOME at all? Sergio

Re: Bug#75144: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Christian Marillat
"SB" == Sergio Brandano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SB> Please post the result of the following command, as root: --> nmap your.machine.name SB> Do not post the machine name and IP; just the result. SB> nmap is a Debian package, but you can also grab it from SB> www.insecure.org/nmap (

Re: Bug#75144: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Sergio Brandano
Please post the result of the following command, as root: --> nmap your.machine.name Do not post the machine name and IP; just the result. nmap is a Debian package, but you can also grab it from www.insecure.org/nmap Sergio

Re: Bug#75144: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Christian Marillat
"SB" == Sergio Brandano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I can reproduce this bug. >> >> $ sudo netstat -np | egrep 1026 >> >> Nothing. SB> You mean you can -not- reproduce it. yes SB> Try "netstat -anp | egrep 1026" as root. SB> Please follow the discussion on debian-security. The sam

Re: Bug#75144: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Sergio Brandano
>I can reproduce this bug. > >$ sudo netstat -np | egrep 1026 > >Nothing. You mean you can -not- reproduce it. Try "netstat -anp | egrep 1026" as root. Please follow the discussion on debian-security. Sergio

Re: Bug#75144: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Christian Marillat
"SB" == Sergio Brandano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SB> Package: gnome-session SB> Version: all versions SB> Severity: grave SB> -- Description of Bug SB> GNOME-SESSION makes available the "nterm" tcp/ip service in port 1026: --> netstat -anp | egrep 1026 SB> tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:10

Re: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Sergio Brandano
>> This is a little confusing. I have that nterm is the name of the >> service in port 1026, and I have gnome-session listening to it. > >Ports above 1024 are free for any user program like gnome-session to use. >It's nothing to do with any nterm service. If you had an nterm service it >would

Re: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Christian Hammers
Hello [I Cc'ed the maintainer of gnome-session.] On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 12:56:28PM +0100, Colin Phipps wrote: > As to why it listens on all interfaces, pass, probably it needs to so gnome > apps running on different machines can communicate. > > #include We should made *this* configurable by

Re: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Colin Phipps
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 12:26:33PM +0100, Sergio Brandano wrote: > This is a little confusing. I have that nterm is the name of the > service in port 1026, and I have gnome-session listening to it. Ports above 1024 are free for any user program like gnome-session to use. It's nothing to do wit

Re: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Sergio Brandano
>But was there an explanation why gnome-session has to listen on every IP >and not only on 127.0.0.1? No, there is no doc -a-t- -a-l-l-. It's scary!

Re: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Christian Hammers
Hallo On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 11:55:55AM +0100, Sergio Brandano wrote: > --> netstat -anp | egrep 1026 > tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:10260.0.0.0:* LISTEN > 295/gnome-session But was there an explanation why gnome-session has to listen on every IP and not only on 1

Re: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Tim Haynes
Sergio Brandano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is a little confusing. I have that nterm is the name of the service > in port 1026, and I have gnome-session listening to it. > > I looked for manuals, docs and all sort of infos on the local system, > including searching content on /etc. I c

Re: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Sergio Brandano
... what is worse is that I do not manage to get rid of it. Sergio

Re: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Sergio Brandano
This is a little confusing. I have that nterm is the name of the service in port 1026, and I have gnome-session listening to it. I looked for manuals, docs and all sort of infos on the local system, including searching content on /etc. I could not find anything on nterm & gnome-session & po

Re: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Sergio Brandano wrote: > ... by the way, what is nterm? there are no docs on that too. A quick search (10 second) on google reveals that is might be a nroff based printing service, used on AIX at least. Wichert. --

Re: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Sergio Brandano
... by the way, what is nterm? there are no docs on that too.

Re: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Sergio Brandano
Too bad there are no docs on it. >It has nothing to do with nterm, and it's just session management. This >has been discussed in various fora several times now.

Re: Bug#75144: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Sergio Brandano
>I suspect it's determined more by the corba layer, or something of that >ilk, at startup-time. It would be more to the point if you did > $ sudo netstat -pant | grep LIST | grep -Ei 'gnome|session' > >I think it's something Sergio's running as part of gnome-session, if not >the session it

Re: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Sergio Brandano wrote: > There is no documentation on the nterm service, including its purpose > and security issues. I first reported the fact at the genesis of the > GNOME project, about two years ago. I hope this time there will be > a public answer. It has nothing to do with nte

Re: Bug#75144: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Sergio Brandano
>If it's configurable, it should default to Off. (Like it does here, >somehow, really.) I agree. > gnome-session 1.2.2.1-3 from woody I am running gnome-session 1.0.55-2 from woody on a ppc. Chances are that it is default to off in this later release. Sergio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Sergio Brandano
Package: gnome-session Version: all versions Severity: grave -- Description of Bug GNOME-SESSION makes available the "nterm" tcp/ip service in port 1026: --> netstat -anp | egrep 1026 tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:10260.0.0.0:* LISTEN 295/gnome-session There is

Re: Bug#75144: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Tim Haynes
Christian Marillat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "SB" == Sergio Brandano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > SB> Christian, > > SB> I see that you do not have any service in port 1026. > SB> Are you running GNOME at all? > > I did "rgrep -w nterm *" and "rgrep -w 1026 *" in gnome-libs and

Re: Bug#75144: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Christian Marillat
"SB" == Sergio Brandano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SB> Great. So, you are running GNOME, but you have no nterm service SB> and gnome-session listening to it. And you are running Debian SB> (potato/woody?). Please report the version of gnome-session SB> installed on your system too. Did

Re: Bug#75144: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Sergio Brandano
Great. So, you are running GNOME, but you have no nterm service and gnome-session listening to it. And you are running Debian (potato/woody?). Please report the version of gnome-session installed on your system too. Did you do anything to avoid this, or it comes straight out of the box? The

Re: Bug#75144: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Christian Marillat
"SB" == Sergio Brandano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SB> Christian, SB> I see that you do not have any service in port 1026. SB> Are you running GNOME at all? I did "rgrep -w nterm *" and "rgrep -w 1026 *" in gnome-libs and gnome-core source tree and I find nothing. Christian -- To

Re: Bug#75144: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Christian Marillat
"SB" == Sergio Brandano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SB> Christian, SB> I see that you do not have any service in port 1026. SB> Are you running GNOME at all? Yes of course. Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EM

Re: Bug#75144: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Sergio Brandano
Christian, I see that you do not have any service in port 1026. Are you running GNOME at all? Sergio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#75144: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Christian Marillat
"SB" == Sergio Brandano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SB> Please post the result of the following command, as root: --> nmap your.machine.name SB> Do not post the machine name and IP; just the result. SB> nmap is a Debian package, but you can also grab it from SB> www.insecure.org/nmap

Re: Bug#75144: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Sergio Brandano
Please post the result of the following command, as root: --> nmap your.machine.name Do not post the machine name and IP; just the result. nmap is a Debian package, but you can also grab it from www.insecure.org/nmap Sergio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Bug#75144: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Christian Marillat
"SB" == Sergio Brandano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I can reproduce this bug. >> >> $ sudo netstat -np | egrep 1026 >> >> Nothing. SB> You mean you can -not- reproduce it. yes SB> Try "netstat -anp | egrep 1026" as root. SB> Please follow the discussion on debian-security. The sa

Re: Bug#75144: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Sergio Brandano
>I can reproduce this bug. > >$ sudo netstat -np | egrep 1026 > >Nothing. You mean you can -not- reproduce it. Try "netstat -anp | egrep 1026" as root. Please follow the discussion on debian-security. Sergio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Bug#75144: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Christian Marillat
"SB" == Sergio Brandano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SB> Package: gnome-session SB> Version: all versions SB> Severity: grave SB> -- Description of Bug SB> GNOME-SESSION makes available the "nterm" tcp/ip service in port 1026: --> netstat -anp | egrep 1026 SB> tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:1

Re: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Sergio Brandano
>> This is a little confusing. I have that nterm is the name of the >> service in port 1026, and I have gnome-session listening to it. > >Ports above 1024 are free for any user program like gnome-session to use. >It's nothing to do with any nterm service. If you had an nterm service it >woul

Re: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Christian Hammers
Hello [I Cc'ed the maintainer of gnome-session.] On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 12:56:28PM +0100, Colin Phipps wrote: > As to why it listens on all interfaces, pass, probably it needs to so gnome > apps running on different machines can communicate. > > #include We should made *this* configurable by

Re: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Colin Phipps
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 12:26:33PM +0100, Sergio Brandano wrote: > This is a little confusing. I have that nterm is the name of the > service in port 1026, and I have gnome-session listening to it. Ports above 1024 are free for any user program like gnome-session to use. It's nothing to do wi

Re: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Sergio Brandano
>But was there an explanation why gnome-session has to listen on every IP >and not only on 127.0.0.1? No, there is no doc -a-t- -a-l-l-. It's scary! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Christian Hammers
Hallo On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 11:55:55AM +0100, Sergio Brandano wrote: > --> netstat -anp | egrep 1026 > tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:10260.0.0.0:* LISTEN >295/gnome-session But was there an explanation why gnome-session has to listen on every IP and not only on 1

Re: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Tim Haynes
Sergio Brandano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is a little confusing. I have that nterm is the name of the service > in port 1026, and I have gnome-session listening to it. > > I looked for manuals, docs and all sort of infos on the local system, > including searching content on /etc. I

Re: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Sergio Brandano
... what is worse is that I do not manage to get rid of it. Sergio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Sergio Brandano
This is a little confusing. I have that nterm is the name of the service in port 1026, and I have gnome-session listening to it. I looked for manuals, docs and all sort of infos on the local system, including searching content on /etc. I could not find anything on nterm & gnome-session & p

Re: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Sergio Brandano wrote: > ... by the way, what is nterm? there are no docs on that too. A quick search (10 second) on google reveals that is might be a nroff based printing service, used on AIX at least. Wichert. --

Re: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Sergio Brandano
... by the way, what is nterm? there are no docs on that too. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Sergio Brandano
Too bad there are no docs on it. >It has nothing to do with nterm, and it's just session management. This >has been discussed in various fora several times now. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Sergio Brandano wrote: > There is no documentation on the nterm service, including its purpose > and security issues. I first reported the fact at the genesis of the > GNOME project, about two years ago. I hope this time there will be > a public answer. It has nothing to do with nt

GNOME'e nterm service

2000-10-19 Thread Sergio Brandano
Package: gnome-session Version: all versions Severity: grave -- Description of Bug GNOME-SESSION makes available the "nterm" tcp/ip service in port 1026: --> netstat -anp | egrep 1026 tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:10260.0.0.0:* LISTEN 295/gnome-session There i