Re: gnome tcp ports (including 2000)

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel nuclecu unam mx>]

> Here's my question: is there any way to turn all of those ports off or 
> alternatively, not allow anybody from the outside world to access them?  I 
> want as secure a system as possible.  Is there a flag for compilation maybe 
> that lets me get rid of those ports?  I can't seem to find any answers in the 
> documentation, but maybe I'm not looking in the right place.

There might be a flag, but I do not know it myself.

But the code uses an authentication system to disable anyone from
trying to abuse those ports (those are the CORBA ports for the various 
corba tools).

best wishes,
Miguel.
-- 
miguel@gnu.org