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Date:      Sun, 20 Sep 1998 13:34:38 -0600
From:      Greg Skafte <skafte@worldgate.com>
To:        Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: tcpd and ssh X forwarding
Message-ID:  <19980920133438.B11613@worldgate.com>
In-Reply-To: <m0zKasa-00000xC@roam.psg.com>; from Randy Bush on Sat, Sep 19, 1998 at 09:13:44PM -0700
References:  <m0zKasa-00000xC@roam.psg.com>

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ssh sets a seperate service for X-forwarding 

	sshdfwd-X11

so allow yourself  

	sshd and sshdfwd-X11 and that should be hunky-dory 

Quoting Randy Bush (randy@psg.com)
On Subject: tcpd and ssh X forwarding
Date: Sat, Sep 19, 1998 at 09:13:44PM -0700

> FreeBSD 3.0CAM-19980712-SNAP, ssh x forwarding gets in trouble with tcpd
> 
>  o i ssh into test.psg.com
> 
>  o DISPLAY seems appropriately set
> 
>     test.psg.com:/usr/local/etc# env | grep DIS
>     DISPLAY=test.psg.com:10.0
> 
>   o if i invoke emacs with x forwarding it dies
> 
>     test.psg.com:/usr/local/etc# emacs /usr/local/etc/hosts.allow
>     [2] 16394
>     test.psg.com:/usr/local/etc# Sep 19 18:35:25 test sshd[16351]: error: \
>              Fwd X11 connection from test.psg.com refused by tcp_wrappers.
>     [2]+  Segmentation fault      (core dumped) /usr/local/bin/emacs -i "$@"
> 
>   o but if i shoot hosts deny, it works
> 
>     test.psg.com:/usr/local/etc# mv hosts.deny foo
>     test.psg.com:/usr/local/etc# emacs /usr/local/etc/hosts.allow
>     [1] 16392
>     test.psg.com:/usr/local/etc# mv foo hosts.deny
> 
>   o therefore it is a tcp_rwapper problem indeed.  yet i have
> 
>     sshd  : ALL
> 
>    in /usr/local/etc/hosts.allow, or i would not even have been able to ssh
>    into the host.
> 
> clues solicited.  and i actually read as many man pages as i thought
> relevant.  clearly i missed the right one.
> 
> randy
> 
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