Re: who is responsible to keep the list of used $DISPLAYs at system level

2007-03-06 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
nevermind it boiled down to sshd bug http://bugs.debian.org/152250 On Tue, 06 Mar 2007, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > actually, the X is not a ssh config option. It is just at least as big as > the ssh config option. And the X (/tmp/6000+X) is/should be forwarded to :1 > on your machine. Do y

Re: who is responsible to keep the list of used $DISPLAYs at system level

2007-03-06 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> > > The problem is -- the user logs in into a remote system via ssh with X > > > forwarding and gets assigned DISPLAY=:13.0. > > Sorry I don't understand - what do you mean "gets assigned"? > > the DISPLAY variable is createx by X server, when the X server, when it > > allocates the port. On 02.

Re: who is responsible to keep the list of used $DISPLAYs at system level

2007-03-02 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
> > The problem is -- the user logs in into a remote system via ssh with X > > forwarding and gets assigned DISPLAY=:13.0. > Sorry I don't understand - what do you mean "gets assigned"? > the DISPLAY variable is createx by X server, when the X server, when it > allocates the port. In my case I am t

Re: who is responsible to keep the list of used $DISPLAYs at system level

2007-03-02 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 01.03.07 13:09, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > Pardon my ignorance on the subject: flow of X connections etc > > The problem is -- the user logs in into a remote system via ssh with X > forwarding and gets assigned DISPLAY=:13.0. Sorry I don't understand - what do you mean "gets assigned"? the DI

Re: who is responsible to keep the list of used $DISPLAYs at system level

2007-03-01 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
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 connec

Re: who is responsible to keep the list of used $DISPLAYs at system level

2007-03-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
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

Re: who is responsible to keep the list of used $DISPLAYs at system level

2007-03-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 01:09:16PM -0500, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > Pardon my ignorance on the subject: flow of X connections etc > > The problem is -- the user logs in into a remote system via ssh with X > forwarding and gets assigned DISPLAY=:13.0. The problem is that he > doesn't get authorit