[maemo-developers] Security Guidance for N800 OS development

[From: Eero Tamminen]

Hi,

ext Ross Burton wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 10:12 -0600, Paul Klapperich wrote:
>> The internet tablet runs an Xserver for one. Use nmap on your PC to
>> scan your Nokia. It has open ports. Marius had specifics earlier.
> 
> Which is a fixed bug, and will be closed in the next release.  It's not
> rocket science to fix this yourself now if it worries you,

And for those who don't have X manual pages installed on
their desktops, you need to modify this file on the device:
	/etc/init.d/x-server

To have the argument "-nolisten tcp" in the line giving ARGS
to the X server.

Note that messing this up will make your device fairly useless
as  without X starting, you don't have an UI for the device.


	- Eero

PS. However, I expect anybody knowing anything about Linux security
already to know what argument to give to X server... :-)