ssh uses IP4:127.0.0.1, and as many times as ppl have asked for unix socket support it 
has allways
been denied.  -nolisten tcp is something for the distros to set up, it should be 
*usable by
default.

* Meaning all non-devel features on and nothing extra for the user to do.

--- Keith Whitwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Keith Packard wrote:
> > Around 2 o'clock on Nov 19, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>Keith, could you put this (being able to specify the interface bindings of
> >>the xserver on the commandline) as a feature request on http://
> >>www.freedesktop.org/Software/XserverWishlist if you find this feature
> >>request useful ? i registerd a wiki account, but logging in doesn`t seem to
> >>work for me.
> > 
> > 
> > I'd like to switch the server so that -nolisten tcp is the default; I 
> > don't see much sense in having it listen to even 127.0.0.1.  But, if you 
> > wanted to make the list of IP addresses that the server bound to 
> > configurable, that seems like a good idea.
> 
> Yep - network transparency is all well & good, but do you really want 
> something as complex as the X server sitting there with an open port to the world?
> 
> Keith
> 
> 


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