Re: Xvfb Question

Leandro Meiners <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.linux
Message-ID <1125319975.6548.7.camel@emij>
basically because I tried the aplication using -nolisten tcp in Xvfb and
it didn't work and I haven't got the source...

On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 22:38 +0100, Glynn Clements wrote: 
> Leandro Meiners wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying to configure Xvfb to listen ONLY on the loopback address, but
> > I haven't found a way to do so.
> > Does anybody know how? Any help appreciated.
> 
> Why would you want to? If you only want to accept local connections,
> you would normally disable TCP altogether with "-nolisten tcp" and
> just accept connections via a Unix-domain socket.
> 
> Other than that, "xhost +localhost" will only accept connections from
> localhost. Or you can use iptables to restrict access to the port.
> 
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