From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Feb 16 21: 1:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from greg.cex.ca (h207-230-249-123.dccnet.com [207.230.249.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5E23337B4EC for ; Fri, 16 Feb 2001 21:01:16 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 27857 invoked by uid 1001); 17 Feb 2001 05:00:23 -0000 Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 21:00:23 -0800 From: Greg White To: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: openssh not setting DISPLAY Message-ID: <20010216210023.A22986@greg.cex.ca> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD Stable References: <3A8D8088.164E99D3@math.missouri.edu> <20010216152317.A97818@mollari.cthul.hu> <3A8DD7E2.E822D313@math.missouri.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3A8DD7E2.E822D313@math.missouri.edu>; from stephen@math.missouri.edu on Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 07:46:10PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 07:46:10PM -0600, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > > > (Somehow I think ForwardX11 yes should be the default, but > > > it seems not to be.) > > > > It's not the default because it allows the remote system to snoop your > > X display, and that's not something you might want so we default to > > being secure. > > > > In that case the default ssh_config is a bit misleading - it > says > > # This is ssh client systemwide configuration file. This file provides > # defaults for users, and the values can be changed in per-user configuration > # files or on the command line. > > ... > > # ForwardX11 yes > IMHO, it's set that way to as to be easily able to change the default. I thought, myself, that it was well documented behaviour that the server usually defaults for ForwardX11, but requires an explicit enable on the client side. Those who want it just uncomment the line in /etc/ssh_config. Just my $0.02 CDN. ;) -- Greg White Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. -- John F. Kennedy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message