From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Feb 16 17:46:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from femail6.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail6.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.86]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 534EA37B491 for ; Fri, 16 Feb 2001 17:46:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from math.missouri.edu ([24.12.197.197]) by femail6.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20010217014611.MKY26098.femail6.sdc1.sfba.home.com@math.missouri.edu>; Fri, 16 Feb 2001 17:46:11 -0800 Message-ID: <3A8DD7E2.E822D313@math.missouri.edu> Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 19:46:10 -0600 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Randy Bush , FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: openssh not setting DISPLAY References: <3A8D8088.164E99D3@math.missouri.edu> <20010216152317.A97818@mollari.cthul.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 giving the impression that the default is ForwardX11 yes Maybe I am reasing it wrong. -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith stephen@math.missouri.edu http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message