three X.org 6.9.0 lame security questions

Zbigniew Luszpinski zbiggy at o2.pl
Sun Jun 18 19:53:42 UTC 2006


Hi!

I run X with -nolisten tcp parameter to stop X from listening.
This option indeed closed 6000/tcp X11 port but opened instead 37435/tcp port 
and keep listening. I tried also remove X magic cookie for tcp/ip proto and 
use unix socks but tcp/ip comes back with every startx. Unix socks are 
working well and make some small X performance boost but tcp/ip cookie is 
still created after lanuching startx. It can be removed after X finishes 
loading but it is boring to remove it everytime. Sorry for asking but my 
googles are blind and man can't help.

My questions:
1. How to make X really stop listening?
2. How to prevent xauth from making tcp/ip magic cookie? It creates 
new .Xauthority file on every startx
3. Where xhost keeps its host records? man xhost tells me it is /etc/X*.hosts 
but in lunar there is no such file.

I use module XOrg-test.

have a nice day,
zbiggy


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