On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 02:50:59PM -0500, Nalin Dahyabhai wrote:
On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 11:06:13AM -0600, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
There is another problem, though. 'man ssh' says:
X11 and TCP forwarding If the ForwardX11 variable is set to "yes" ...
...
and not a peep about some '-Y'.
The short-and-probably-inadequate explanation is that untrusted clients can only interact/mess with other untrusted clients, the idea being that you have clients which might misbehave, and those that you trust to not.
What I can guess, rightly or wrongly, is another story. :-) I just pointed out that the current documentation for 'ssh' is somewhat, ah, inadequte and even a bit misleading. An explicit reference to other sources you quote would undoubtely help; as also a word or two about '-Y' in a subsection entitled "X11 and TCP forwarding". I am also not sure if I see right away an example when '-X' option would be really useful with this version of ssh. Maybe I do not have a setup where I can see that?
Michal