Re: security, cvs, was Re: interface bindings of x-server
Alan Coopersmith <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.cygwin.xfree,gmane.comp.freedesktop.xserver |
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| Organization | Sun Microsystems |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
roland@webde wrote: > the only chance to get rid of it, is to use unix domain socket (via -nolisten tcp) OR to > add the option, to specify the interface bindings and be able to bind it to local loopback > ONLY. I`d prefer the second one. Why? What benefit does a TCP loopback connection provide over the Unix domain socket (which is generally faster on most OS'es)? > ahhhh - btw - i see: > on http://www.tightvnc.com/changelog-unix.html > 2001-01-17 01:55 const > Xvnc/programs/Xserver/hw/vnc/: init.c, rfb.h, sockets.c: Support for Xvnc -interface > option added (patch from Tim Waught). > > feature seems to be in tightvnc already - so maybe we need just some code transfer (since vnc is xfree86 > based) ? ;) Only if the original author of the tightvnc changes agrees to distribute under the X license instead of tightvnc's GPL. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [email protected] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Sun Software Group User Experience Engineering: G11N: X Window System