ssh X forwarding change in FC3

P at draigBrady.com P at draigBrady.com
Mon Jan 10 17:39:40 UTC 2005


Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> Hmm? i haven't seen any problems with it, and i have used SSH (with X)
> from anything from a mac to fc3 and fc2 computers, to fc3 and fc2
> computers. Never any problem. Only thing worth mention is that the mac
> and fc2 didn't understand the -Y flag, it just said it wasn't a real
> flag. So we stuck to X, and everything worked.

Yes the problem was only introduced in FC3

> From fc3 we also needed
> -Y, and then copy/paste would work. No problem whatsoever.

Yes, that what we're saying. -Y is a new option,
the long version of which is --dont-fail-in-obscure-ways
The default should be to work and we can still
have a --fail-in-obscure-ways option.

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