[2024-feb-29] Sad news: Eric Layton aka Nocturnal Slacker aka vtel57 passed away on Feb 26th, shortly after hospitalization. He was one of our Wiki's most prominent admins. He will be missed.

Welcome to the Slackware Documentation Project

Differences

This shows you the differences between two versions of the page.

Link to this comparison view

Both sides previous revisionPrevious revision
Next revision		Previous revision
Last revisionBoth sides next revision
howtos:security:basic_security [2012/10/07 10:23 (UTC)] – [X -nolisten tcp] htexmexhhowtos:security:basic_security [2012/10/09 09:48 (UTC)] – [X -nolisten tcp] htexmexh
Line 30: Line 30:
 </file> </file>
 You can specify more options to X in the same file if you need to.xserverrc You can specify more options to X in the same file if you need to.xserverrc
 +<note>
 +On Slackware, listening for incoming XDMCP requests is disabled by default in both xdm and kdm, so it is secure by default. One may ask, why bother stopping Xorg from listening if this is the case. It is always better not to trust config files, as exemplified by an old bug report when [[http://bugs.xfree86.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1376|xdm ignored its config file]].
 +</note>
 ==== Check for open ports ==== ==== Check for open ports ====
 Some ways to check for open ports are: Some ways to check for open ports are:
Line 55: Line 58:
 <!-- Please do not modify anything below, except adding new tags.--> <!-- Please do not modify anything below, except adding new tags.-->
 <!-- You must remove the tag-word "template" below before saving your new page --> <!-- You must remove the tag-word "template" below before saving your new page -->
-{{tag>security software author_htexmexh template}}+{{tag>security software author_htexmexh}}

Trace:

howtos:security:basic_security ()