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Date:      Sun, 28 Oct 2001 17:30:04 -0500 (EST)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>
Cc:        FUJISHIMA Satsuki <sf@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/x11/XFree86-4-clients Makefile ports/x11/XFree86-4-libraries/files         patch-xdm_session.c
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1011028172923.15623D-100000@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <20011028142117.A25747@squall.waterspout.com>

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On Sun, 28 Oct 2001, Will Andrews wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 09:07:03AM -0500, Robert Watson wrote:
> > I've always liked the idea of -nolisten tcp by default, but could you
> > verify that SSH X11 forwarding still works when this is the case?  It was
> > my impression, at one point, that the X11 forwarding was effectively a
> > glorified TCP forwarding, and not capable of forwarding the remote TCP X11
> > connection to the local UNIX domain socket in /tmp. 
> 
> It's pretty simple to verify this fact.
> 
> 	ipfw add 1 deny tcp from any to any 6000
> 
> Using this allowed me to verify the fact that SSH X Forwarding still
> works perfectly fine. 

Sounds good to me, just wanted to make sure someone checked :-).

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project
robert@fledge.watson.org      NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services



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