This is from a security discussion on one of the GNOME lists. Jim is one of the original X11 people, for what that's worth. I just thought I'd try to tempt some folks here into looking at doing ssh and X integration "right". Greg -- Portland, Oregon, USA. Please don't copy me on replies to the list. -------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: <Jim.Gettys at hp.com> Subject: Re: X-windows security in Gnome Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 10:51:22 -0700 (PDT) Size: 3837 Url: http://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-dev/attachments/20020517/2163916f/attachment.mht
On 17 May 2002, Gregory Leblanc wrote: :This is from a security discussion on one of the GNOME lists. Jim is :one of the original X11 people, for what that's worth. I just thought :I'd try to tempt some folks here into looking at doing ssh and X :integration "right". I'm not really certain what Jim is referring to. From an X11 purist standpoint we should use Xlib, Xau and maybe other X11 libs to do some of the stuff we do to make X11 forwarding function, but for security reasons we do not.
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 01:59:29PM -0700, Gregory Leblanc wrote:> This is from a security discussion on one of the GNOME lists. Jim is > one of the original X11 people, for what that's worth. I just thought > I'd try to tempt some folks here into looking at doing ssh and X > integration "right".well, what is he talking about?