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Date:      Fri, 16 Feb 2001 18:35:55 -0500
From:      Peter Radcliffe <pir@pir.net>
To:        FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: openssh not setting DISPLAY
Message-ID:  <20010216183555.K9583@pir.net>
In-Reply-To: <33610000.982366319@pyanfar.ece.cmu.edu>; from allbery@ece.cmu.edu on Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 06:31:59PM -0500
References:  <20010216152317.A97818@mollari.cthul.hu> <33610000.982366319@pyanfar.ece.cmu.edu>

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"Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu> probably said:
> That's interesting, since the sshd manpage from openssh says:
> 
>              Note that disabling X11 forwarding does not improve secu­
>              rity in any way, as users can always install their own for­
>              warders.

That is talking about the whole system security for, say, a multiuser
system. If the sysadmin disables X11 forwarding then a user can do
their own forwarding, but they have to _deliberately_ turn it on.

So they are both true, but they're talking about different situations.

P.

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pir                  pir@pir.net                    pir@net.tufts.edu



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