Re: rmi connection

    I'm not sure what the benefit of allowing remote X connections would
be when using RMI.  This seems like a unneeded opening of a potential
attack.  The firewall settings would probably need to be tweaked to
allow related connections in; even this should be done with care.

Carl Cook wrote:

>On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 16:40:10 -0700, haipeng du <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
>>Everyone:
>>I create rmi server and client by using spring framework. The problem
>>is that I can not connect to rmi server when the server is running on
>>Fedora core 2. I have already create a policy file that grant all
>>permissions, just like:
>>grant {
>>permission java.security.AllPermission;
>>};
>>If i move my rmi to other operating system, such as debian (with x
>>window), everything is good. I bet that because my operating system
>>network setting. But I do not know how to fix that. Could you give me
>>some ideas about these?
>>Thanks a lot.
>>
>>--
>>Haipeng Du
>>Software Engineer
>>Comphealth,
>>Salt Lake City
>>
>>
>
>Hi,
>
>Fedora Core and RMI do not get on very well by default.
>
>After installing FC3 from RH9, I noticed that I could not make RMI
>connections any more (connection refused).
>
>There are two main problems:
>
>1. By default, gdm does not allow remote X connections
>
>2. By default, the FC firewall does not allow RMI connections (the firewall
> is not so paranoid by default in RH9).
>
>Here's what I did to configure the server:
>
>1. As root, run gdmconfig and deselect the option that says
>"Security->Always disallow TCP connections to X server". You could also edit
>the gdm .config file and restart X to fix this problem.
>
>2. Run the command "iptables -F" as root. This deletes the firewall rule
>that bans incoming X connections. This command also deletes all other
>firewall rules on that machine, but hey, a general solution is always the
>best option, apparently.
>
>Hope that helps!
>
>Thanks,
>~Carl.
>
>p.s. This message could also be posted to the main networking mailing list
>if people are having problems with FC and Java networking.
>
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