Re: make gnome listen on localhost:*

[Matthew Kirkwood <weejock ferret lmh ox ac uk>]

On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Ali Abdin wrote:

> > All we want is a safe default

> I think _ONE_ of the reasons that ORBit will /NOT/ disable the inet
> sockets thing by default is because if it does it is not following the
> CORBA standard. ORBit is a CORBA ORB - if it does not follow the
> standard what does it become?

Hardly.  CORBA is a fairly tight set of related standards,
but whether one offers a service over IIOP via IPv4 by default
is not the sort of things that it specifies.

> But anyway - if somebody does not like the fact that ORBit uses inet
> sockets by default you can feel free to create a program or a
> 'capplet' called 'Secure ORBit' or something. Then if distro's wish to
> be security concsious or whatever they could distribute it by default.

We have already seen that this doesn't happen.  Miguel has
deferred to Elliot on this issue.  The distros would defer
to Miguel or, more likely, just ignore the issue entirely.

Matthew.