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2024 May 30
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[Bug 3695] New: X11 forwarding via UNIX socket instead of 127.0.0.1
...#39;s much more secure than relying on
.Xauthority protecting the TCP socket.
---> So why not use a UNIX socket for X11 forwarding?
P.S.
I don't have much experience with Wayland. But it looks like Waypipe is
also using UNIX sockets for Wayland forwarding.
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mstoeckl/waypipe
https://mstoeckl.com/notes/gsoc/blog.html
You can manually try this out:
ssh -R /tmp/.X11-unix/X1:/tmp/.X11-unix/X0 USER at HOST
DISPLAY=:1 xterm
rm -Iv /tmp/.X11-unix/X1
You have to manually remove /tmp/.X11-unix/X1 afterwards, because SSH
doesn't to that and won't create a...