On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Saso Virag wrote:

> >Yes, but you can't rip everything out if you expect to run a commercial
> >firewall's GUI.
>
> Sure you can. It's a Good_Thing(sm).
>
> >                 Solaris wants rpcbind for the X font server for instance.
> >Ripping listening sockets out of CDE *sucks* and is non-trivial.
>
> That's true, but people really _should_ know better than running Xserver
> and *gasp* CDE X manager on the firewall box. Operative word being
> *should*. :-)
>

unfortunantly the alturnative seems to be to put a microsoft windows box
out on the network to be a management station, at least with X on the
firewall the firewall attempts to prevent access from the world, if you
use a microsoft box usually it's not hardened (you may be able to turn it
off when not needed, unless it also deals with your logs)

David Lang
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