ssh X forwarding change in FC3

Havoc Pennington hp at redhat.com
Mon Jan 10 21:22:04 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 16:19 -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 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.
> 

Doh, -Y enables trusted X so all the windows are trusted. The default
(have untrusted windows) is the thing that doesn't work.

Havoc





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