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2011 Aug 13
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[Bug 1926] New: use Xephyr for "secure" X-forwarding
...onsidered insecure, cause a malicious remote host
could tamper with the client's host X server, right?
Therefore I basically never use it.
Why not adding a new feature that does about the following (let's call
it -SX for the moment).
If the user does something like ssh -SX remote.host, X-forwarind is
(completely secured via SSH tunnels) enabled and DISPLAY is set, but
not to the client's host X server, but to a freshly invoked Xephyr
instance started by ssh.
As far as I understand - but experts should probably confirm this - one
would then have a separate Window (from Xephyr) and only t...