Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 18:31:59 -0500 From: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> Cc: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: openssh not setting DISPLAY Message-ID: <33610000.982366319@pyanfar.ece.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20010216152317.A97818@mollari.cthul.hu>
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On Friday, February 16, 2001 15:23:17 -0800, Kris Kennaway =
<kris@obsecurity.org> wrote:
+-----
| It's not the default because it allows the remote system to snoop your
| X display, and that's not something you might want so we default to
| being secure.
+--->8
That's interesting, since the sshd manpage from openssh says:
Note that disabling X11 forwarding does not improve secu=AD
rity in any way, as users can always install their own for=AD
warders.
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system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu
electrical and computer engineering KF8NH
carnegie mellon university ["better check the oblivious first" -ke6sls]
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