Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (808 mails)

[Johannes Meixner <jsmeix@xxxxxxx>]

Hello Vincent,

On Aug 3 09:07 Vincent Untz wrote (excerpt):

> Le mercredi 03 août 2011, à 09:03 +0200, Johannes Meixner a écrit :
> > When the CUPS print server process is the only server process
> > which runs on the workstation, opening its IPP port 631 removes
> > effectively any firewall protection from the workstation.
>
> This is assuming that there is no non-root processes opening ports above
> 1024, which is not necessarily true.

I do not understand what you mean.

I meant:
When a "whatever" server process is the only server process
which runs on the workstation, opening its port removes
effectively any firewall protection from the workstation.


Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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