ssh X forwarding change in FC3

[Michael Favia]

Havoc Pennington wrote:

>On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 16:19 -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote:
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>>On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 18:31 +0100, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>-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.
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>Doh, -Y enables trusted X so all the windows are trusted. The default
>(have untrusted windows) is the thing that doesn't work.
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>Havoc
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All these Xs and Ys are confusing me too not to mention giving me 
nightmarish flashbacks  of college genomic study when i sleep.

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