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Date:      Tue, 05 Jan 1999 14:15:38 -0800
From:      bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV (Bruce A. Mah)
To:        The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ssh "error" message .. 
Message-ID:  <199901052215.OAA19362@stennis.ca.sandia.gov>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 05 Jan 1999 17:45:05 -0400." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901051744120.18250-100000@thelab.hub.org> 

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If memory serves me right, The Hermit Hacker wrote:

> Has anyone seen the following before?  I'm thinking a port-attack, since
> I've gotten two reports so far, each reporting the same host, but
> different IP...
> 
> hub> logout
> Waiting for forwarded connections to terminate...
> The following connections are open:
>   X11 connection from tntport0581.cwjamaica.com port 1488
>   X11 connection from tntport0581.cwjamaica.com port 1918

Yes, many many times.  These are the error messages that you see when you ssh 
to another machine, fire up some X clients on the remote host, then try to 
logout.  The X protocol messages from the X clients are tunneled over the 
encrypted SSH connection, so the SSH connection can't go away without killing 
the clients.  The behavior you see gives you (the user) a chance to gracefully 
shut down the X clients first.

If I don't care about those X clients, I'll usually kill the window from which 
I ran ssh.

Bruce.



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