XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-47 copy/paste trouble and BadAtom.
Harold L Hunt II
huntharo@msu.edu
Sun Feb 29 01:57:00 GMT 2004
Alexander,
Alexander Gottwald wrote:
> Virgilio, Vincent wrote:
>
>
>>when using ssh and X-forwarding (now with ForwardX11Trusted = yes)? It
>>looks like I have cookies in the right place. xauth report the same ones
>>on both the local and remote machine. Though, I have gnawing concerns
>>about the host part of the display name in those cookies; the
>>(alphabetic) cases do not match. Hum. I should try to share cookies
>>again (xauth extract, scp, xauth merge).
>
>
> It is an issue how the xserver handles untrusted clients. Until openssh
> 3.8 all clients forwarded by ssh were trusted by default. Now they are
> untrusted by default.
Wow, good thing I haven't commented on this yet. I upgraded to OpenSSH
3.8 when it came out and since then have noticed that all of my ssh
connections (even those done by cvs) were enabling X11 forwarding by
default. I thought this was interesting, particularly since it wasn't
mentioned in the release notes. I was just about to describe how this
change was made in OpenSSH 3.8 and how I am really smart because I am
the only one that noticed it... then I realized:
1) My ssh_config is modified to enable X11Forwarding (I don't have to
use -X, but I always do because I had forgotten that I changed this
default).
2) I had installed SFU 3.5 at about the same time that I upgraded to
OpenSSH 3.8. Turns out that SFU 3.5 adds DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 to the
global environment variables.
The combination of these two meant that ssh was acting as if it was
getting passed a -X and it had a valid DISPLAY value at all times, so it
was enabling X11 forwarding at all times.
I was wondering if this change in behavior meant that our multi-window
window manager would be unable to connect to the server when an ssh
session had been opened on the local machine already. I did some
testing but was not able to cause this to happen. In any case, my great
ideas for what was causing this problem are useless :)
Harold
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