On Thu, Dec 21, 2006, Nadav Har'El wrote about "Re: starting an X application from remote computer": > On Thu, Dec 21, 2006, Ilya Konstantinov wrote about "Re: starting an X > application from remote computer": > > If you use the SSH X forwarding feature (which you are wholeheartedly > > recommended), you must make sure that your remote machine's sshd_config file > > allows X forwarding. In the OpenSSH installation, it's disabled by default. > > You probably mean ssh_config, the client's configuration - *not* sshd_config > which is the server's configurations. X forwarding is disabled by default by > ssh *clients* because it is a security risk: basically it allows the server
It was just pointed out to me that actually, both of us were right: there's a X forwarding configuration in *both* clients and servers, and apparently both are disabled by default... Frankly, I don't understand what's the point of disabling X forwarding on the ssh server - what is the ssh server risking? Or is it just the waste of resources to create the X forwarder that never gets used? -- Nadav Har'El | Thursday, Dec 21 2006, 30 Kislev 5767 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |This space is for sale - inquire inside. http://nadav.harel.org.il | ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
