ssh tunnel + copy and paste = window crashes

Adam Jackson ajax at nwnk.net
Tue Aug 9 09:01:46 PDT 2005


On Tuesday 09 August 2005 10:52, P at draigbrady.com wrote:
> Matthieu Herrb wrote:
> > Horacio E. Castillo wrote:
> >> Summary:
> >>
> >> Remote xterm and emacs windows crash when doing copy and paste.
> >
> > Use ssh -Y instead of ssh -X, or set ForwardX11Trusted Yes in
> > .ssh/config. For more details, see the ssh_config(5) manual page, and
> > look at the X security extension documentation.
>
> This particularly annoys me, as you can see here:
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2005-January/thread.html#
>00190

Blame the openssh people for silently changing the semantics of the -X option 
between releases.  It's not X's fault.

- ajax
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