[Techtalk] Security Issue:disallowing external access to X wi ndows

[Rita Starceski]

Sorry.. didn't mean to sound rude.. deadline at work came up.

I do want to keep people from attaching to my Xserver from the outside and
from using having an Xterm on any machine other than the console.

thanks for the tons of input.
Rita

-----Original Message-----
From: Julie [mailto:jockgrrl at austin.rr.com]
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 7:59 PM
To: Jeff Dike
Cc: Rita Starceski; 'techtalk at linuxchix.org'
Subject: Re: [Techtalk] Security Issue:disallowing external access to X
windows


Jeff Dike wrote:
> 
> jockgrrl at austin.rr.com said:
> > I firewall sshd ;-)
> 
> Wow, you're pretty parano...  ummm you run a pretty tight ship :-)

Yup ;-)  At the moment I have only one port open to anyone
who shows up -- httpd -- and it doesn't go to a real HTTPD
server.

> > I assumed the original poster was asking how she could keep someone
> > outside her machine from attaching to her X server.  I may have been
> > wrong ...
> 
> Yeah, I suppose.  The way the question was phrased, it sounded more
general
> than that to me.

She's not responded to any of the more recent notes, so I'm not
sure what she wanted exactly.
-- 
Julianne Frances Haugh             Life is either a daring adventure
jockgrrl at austin.rr.com                 or nothing at all.
					    -- Helen Keller