cygwin-x-doc/faq remote.xml,1.7,1.8
Alexander Gottwald
xserver-commit at pdx.freedesktop.org
Sun May 2 08:13:36 EST 2004
Committed by: ago
Update of /cvs/xserver/cygwin-x-doc/faq
In directory pdx:/tmp/cvs-serv21020/faq
Modified Files:
remote.xml
Log Message:
update section on trusted X11 forwarding again. The ssh default is
untrusted X11 forwarding while trusted is enabled with -Y
Index: remote.xml
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RCS file: /cvs/xserver/cygwin-x-doc/faq/remote.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.7
retrieving revision 1.8
diff -u -d -r1.7 -r1.8
--- a/remote.xml 15 Apr 2004 12:09:35 -0000 1.7
+++ b/remote.xml 1 May 2004 22:13:34 -0000 1.8
@@ -9,17 +9,17 @@
<answer>
<label>A1:</label>
-<para>OpenSSH 3.8 enables trusted X11 forwarding by default when
-connecting to an ssh server that supports trusted X11 forwarding.
+<para>OpenSSH 3.8 enables untrusted X11 forwarding by default when
+connecting to an ssh server that supports untrusted X11 forwarding.
Most ssh servers for &linux; are versions of OpenSSH that do support
-trusted X11 forwarding, so using OpenSSH 3.8 from Cygwin will result
-in a connection that uses trusted X11 forwarding by default. You will
+untrusted X11 forwarding, so using OpenSSH 3.8 from Cygwin will result
+in a connection that uses untrusted X11 forwarding by default. You will
quickly notice that this is the case if most of your X applications
are now killed when you try to copy and paste or if
<command>xdpyinfo</command> returns only a fraction of the supported
extensions that it does if run locally.</para>
-<para>It is easiest to just override trusted X11 forwarding by passing
+<para>It is easiest to just override untrusted X11 forwarding by passing
<parameter>-Y</parameter> to <command>ssh</command> in place of
<parameter>-X</parameter>. The <parameter>-Y</parameter> does the
same thing as <parameter>-X</parameter>, but it enables trusted X11
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