CDE Without ToolTalk?

From: Crist J. Clark (crist.clark@attbi.com)
Date: 09/05/02 

Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 12:24:54 -0700
From: "Crist J. Clark" <crist.clark@attbi.com>
To: focus-sun@securityfocus.com

Does anyone have a reference on how to lock down CDE? When asked to
"harden" a Sun server, one of the first things to do is go through
inetd.conf and take everything out but the basics, or even better, not
run inetd at all.

But the admins really don't like that since it breaks CDE. I don't
like being stuck at the console prompt with one shell either. I
wouldn't think it would be a lot to ask to just have a windowing
environment so we can have multiple ttys going at once, but not have
all of the extra network services like the dreaded ToolTalk server.

Is there a way to get CDE going? It bails out for me once it finds it
can't start up ToolTalk. Am I stuck going to a different windowing
system (isn't Openwin depricated these days?)?

(I think this has been covered before here, but SecurityFocus's search
page keeps telling me the server is too busy, and I haven't had any
luck Googling. Thanks.) 

-- 
Crist J. Clark                     |     cjclark@alum.mit.edu
                                   |     cjclark@jhu.edu
http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/    |     cjc@freebsd.org

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