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Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 18:22:58 -0700
From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
Cc: stable@freebsd.org, kris@obsecurity.org
Subject: Re: ssh + X11 forwarding = a hung ssh process
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On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 05:01:30PM -0700, John Polstra wrote:
> In article <20020530164114.A1623@xor.obsecurity.org>,
> Kris Kennaway  <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 09:10:08AM -0700, John Polstra wrote:
> > > For example: my desktop machine is "strings" and the other machine
> > > is "thin".  I start an xterm like this:
> > >
> > >     strings$ ssh thin xterm
> > >
> > > Now I exit the xterm by typing "logout" into it.  The xterm goes away,
> > > but the ssh command does not exit.  It just sits there until I kill
> > > it.
> >=20
> > I think it's intentional; the ssh tunnel needs to stay open so it can
> > do X11 connection forwarding.
>=20
> Nah, I don't agree with that.  The ssh process should stay around as
> long as there is an X11 connection open, but it should die when the
> last tunneled X11 connection is closed (i.e., when the remote xterm
> exits).  That's what it's traditionally done, and that's the more
> useful behavior.

Sorry, I misread your mail.

Kris

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