> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Vladislav Belogrudov > Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 9:27 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: X11 and nolisten tcp > > ---http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=110128694416505&w=2 > Looking at the commit history, this has been handled > by the > OpenBSD team. Someone thought it was good to turn off > but Theo > said it should be on so that is how it is. > ------ > > well, that cannot be explained better > "You can do this, but you cannot" > > Thanks, that explains a lot ;) >
OpenBSD could also choose to have no ports listening at all when the system starts up. By design, certain network applications or services are started up by default and do listen. I think a lot of the disagreement is around the nature of the X Window system. Many people consider it to be a network aware service, others consider it to be a bloated single-user application. If you do agree that it is a network service, then it should listen if explicitly installed. If there was enough developer time, I'm sure it would be rewritten to use privilege separation.
