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FS#13730 - Xfce 4.6 session-manager listens to TCP (ICE Layer) - Should be optional

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Marco (mcover) - Tuesday, 10 March 2009, 01:48 GMT
Last edited by Andrea Scarpino (BaSh) - Monday, 27 April 2009, 16:43 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=66911
Nobody replied, hence I see this as a matter for flyspray.

Additional info:
* xfce-utils 4.6.0-1
* /etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc - see fix below


Steps to reproduce:
- Start Xfce 4.6. Netstat should show xfce4-session to listen to a TCP port.

In my opinion it would be of benefit to either make xfce4-session not listen to TCP by default or provide it as an option (conf.d).

Modifying the xinitrc and changing the xfce4-session relevant code to contain
$xfcesm --disable-tcp
allowed me to have all my ports closed again.

This might be a security risk. I am successfully running with --disable-tcp and I have no problems - listening to a tcp port was not required in previous versions of xfce4-sessions either.

Obviously it is possible to always modify the xinitrc when xfce is installed, however I believe it is not the proper solution and other users (that do not go about running netstat -ap all the time) may benefit from this as well.
This task depends upon

Closed by  Andrea Scarpino (BaSh)
Monday, 27 April 2009, 16:43 GMT
Reason for closing:  Upstream
Comment by Marco (mcover) - Saturday, 21 March 2009, 18:15 GMT
Simple patch.
   xinitrc-icetcplisten.patch (0.2 KiB)
Comment by Marco (mcover) - Wednesday, 22 April 2009, 17:22 GMT
Upstream fixed: http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5126

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