Making, drinking tea and reading an opus magnum from Will H. Backman:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
> Of
> > Vladislav Belogrudov
> > Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 9:27 AM
> > To: misc@openbsd.org
> > 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.
you know what's funny?
it does privilege separation!
cu
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paranoic mickey (my employers have changed but, the name has remained)
