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Date:      Fri, 16 Feb 2001 15:23:17 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        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:  <20010216152317.A97818@mollari.cthul.hu>
In-Reply-To: <3A8D8088.164E99D3@math.missouri.edu>; from stephen@math.missouri.edu on Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 01:33:28PM -0600
References:  <E14Tq7y-0008J9-00@rip.psg.com> <3A8D8088.164E99D3@math.missouri.edu>

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On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 01:33:28PM -0600, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> I had the same problem.  I fixed it by putting
> ForwardX11 yes
> in /etc/ssh_config (I am assuming that here you are showing
> sshd_config).
>=20
> (Somehow I think ForwardX11 yes should be the default, but
> it seems not to be.)

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.

Kris

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