Anyone can acccess your system through port 6000 unless you set up some security.
Collins Richey wrote: > On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 22:33:08 -0500 > Joel Hammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Yes. >> >> Port 6000 allows anyone to attach to your X-server. > > And the effect of this would be? I'm not trying to be a wise ass, I just > don't understand all of this. > >> xdmcp also allows people to get a login screen to your box. >> Anybody could dump stuff to your printer, too. >> >> I do not know what is listening to 32768. I do not know what wdm is. > > wdm is the login manager (an extended xdm) >> >> If you want, I could run nmap against your server for your. This stuff > > cool. > >> is all easy to hide from the world, BTW. >> >> Joel >> >> Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 06:45:09PM -0700, Collins Richey wrote: >> > Simple security question. I don't do anything special for security, >> > but I got curious enough to issue `lsof -i` just for grins. >> > >> > >> > COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME >> > lpd 997 lp 6u IPv4 2805 TCP *:printer (LISTEN) >> > wdm 1146 root 4u IPv4 3243 UDP *:xdmcp >> > wdm 1146 root 5u IPv4 3244 TCP *:32768 (LISTEN) >> > X 1149 root 1u IPv4 3249 TCP *:6000 (LISTEN) >> > wdm 1150 root 5u IPv4 3244 TCP *:32768 (LISTEN) >> > >> > Given the few ports that are actually listening, do I have much to >> > worry about? >> > > > -- > Collins -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] AKA Grunt <>< Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
