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    I scaned my box for open ports and found that port 6000 which nmap says its X11 is open does anyone know what this is or how to close the port if it doesnt need to be open? thanx trials
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    X11 I believe is for Xwindows. Generally I've noticed that XWindows of a variety of types is either on port 3000 or 6000.

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    I'd recommend firewalling off port 6000 if you can using either ipchains or iptables. Also, there is a parameter you can pass to startx that goes --nolisten tcp. If you add that, it should not listen on any TCP ports. I believe the default behaviour was changed in XF4.1.x and up so that it won't listen on any TCP ports by default.

    It's always good to learn to firewall your box though.
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    thanx for you help, where abouts do you out the parameter that you pass to start x? im runniing mandrake 8.2 and X starts when the system boots up. thanx trials
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    correct me if I am wrong but....

    Make sure you only block that port coming inbound from the network. dont block connections from localhost to localhost, or you wont be able to run xwindows.

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    Originally posted here by trials
    thanx for you help, where abouts do you out the parameter that you pass to start x? im runniing mandrake 8.2 and X starts when the system boots up. thanx trials
    I'm unfamiliar with mandrake, but automatically booting to X is runlevel 5, so there should be a script in /etc/rc.d/rc5.d.

    Do the following:
    Open up a console.
    Su to root.
    Cd to /etc/rc.d/rc5.d
    Do grep startx *. It should turn up one or more results.
    Edit the files it shows you, and change the startx command to read startx --nolisten tcp.

    correct me if I am wrong but....

    Make sure you only block that port coming inbound from the network. dont block connections from localhost to localhost, or you wont be able to run xwindows.
    Actually, this won't affect X at all if you tell it to ignore TCP.
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