ssh -X shop problem...

[Les Mikesell]

On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 16:32 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >>
> >> I have enabled all the X11Forwarding stuffs.  It appears to be being
> >> ignored.  But as long as the "ssh -X gene at shop" works, its ok by me.
> >
> >You need 'ssh -Y' for most things now.  The documentation on this point
> >leaves a lot to be desired.
> >
> I hear a hearty chorus of Amen's to that.  Frankly, linux documentation is 
> in far worse shape than it was in 1997, mostly because of the forking 
> away from the universal manpage that has been done to the doc format.

I didn't mean it was that hard to find. The terms just don't mean
anything to me:
  -Y      Enables trusted X11 forwarding.  Trusted X11 forwardings are
not
          subjected to the X11 SECURITY extension controls.

What does trusted mean in this context?

> I 
> don't know of the times I've needed to look at something in docbook 
> format, even coming to this list to ask what others are using to 
> view/print those things, and have been universally ignored, I assume 
> because everyone is supposed to know WTF a docbook file is.

Docbook is a write-only metaformat. There are tools to convert to
an assortment of readable formats.

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  Les Mikesell
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