[Discuss] nmap output question

Kent Borg kentborg at borg.org
Wed May 19 15:10:00 EDT 2021


On 5/19/21 10:49 AM, Dan Ritter wrote:
>>> 6001/tcp open  X11      (access denied)
>>>
> 6001 is a TCP port that is commonly used for X11. Something is
> answering at that port, but your IP address is not on its xhost
> allow list, so it won't talk to you.

In this case it is vncserver that I fired up (the intention being to 
only use it from an ssh tunnel).

When I run xhost I get "access control enabled, only authorized clients 
can connect".


So it looks like while I have the vncserver running I am not opening up 
a risk from this port.


Thanks,

-kb



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