How can I get ssh to use "untrusted" cookies (see xauth(1), X11-SECURITY-Extension) with forwarded X clients? Cheers. Aurelio.
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 08:04:27AM +0000, Aurelio Turco wrote:> How can I get ssh to use > "untrusted" cookies (see xauth(1), X11-SECURITY-Extension) > with forwarded X clients?i'm not sure. for the most part we try to handle what 'xauth l $DISPLAY' has, but we don't use any X libraries.
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