On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 05:51:53PM -0500, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > Thank you Roberto, > > The problem seems to boil down to an issue in sshd (bug #152250 since > woody's times), so I am pursuing this subject further on -devel. > > But why do you want lower ones for ssh X forwarding? I would do the > opposite probably since lower numbers are easier to remember for VNC > connections, and in ssh you don't really care what the number assigned. > Although idea of fixed mapping from uid to a port sounds worth > considering... > Because as people log in, they get assigned DISPLAY=localhost:X.X, which starts at some fixed low number. Though, on further thought, you could assign low display numbers to VNC and then change XDisplayOffset in your sshd_config to some suitably high number. In reality, neither makes a difference, since I don't think very many apps care about your actual DISPLAY, just that whether or not it is set.
Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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