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 -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH -- Maxfeldstrasse 5 -- 90409 Nuernberg -- Germany HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendoerffer