Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 18:46:58 +1000 From: sickofthis@openmailbox.org To: freebsd-office@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: LibreOffice 4.2.4 -- Has anyone figured out how to have this software NOT listen to the =?UTF-8?Q?Internet=3F?= Message-ID: <985b0b9ccf564de8f721a89e096f69f8@openmailbox.org>
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Step 1: $ libreoffice Don't run it in the background -- otherwise you'll have to kill the stuck process manually when you exit LibreOffice vs. the somewhat more convenient CTRL+C for a foreground process (*shrug*). Step 2: Click on either "Impress Presentation" or "Draw Drawing." Then wait half a minute for the sub-app to open (*shrug*). Step 3: $ sockstat -46 You'll see TCP/1599 and UDP/1598 ports open to the Internet. Apparently it's related to Impress Remote. Apparently there's supposed to be some option called "Enabled remote control" that controls this functionality, but I can't find it. In any event, the functionality should NOT be enabled by default. Most people don't expect a piece of office software to act as an Internet daemon. The open-source community has had over 20 years to get this very basic best-practice stuff right, and it's still happening. Unbelievable. The default behavior alone means I have absolutely zero confidence that every piece of code accessible via the open network ports handles allocated memory, numerical manipulations, etc., properly. Here's hoping your firewall handles state properly, especially when it comes to UDP ports and your DNS servers.
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