ssh X forwarding change in FC3

Havoc Pennington hp at redhat.com
Mon Jan 10 21:19:40 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 18:31 +0100, 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. From fc3 we also needed
> -Y, and then copy/paste would work. No problem whatsoever.
> 

-X of course is going to work. If -Y works for you I'm surprised. Are
you saying you pass both -X and -Y? Maybe that disables trusted mode.
Copy and paste should not work from a trusted app to untrusted because
the untrusted app would need to read data from a trusted window.

Havoc





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