X11 forwards and libwrap support

[Pekka Savola]

On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Markus Friedl wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 12:32:11PM -0500, Dan Astoorian wrote:
> > I don't think this is by any means a showstopper, but does anyone think
> > it would be worthwhile for OpenSSH's daemon to use a non-default
> > location for its cookies by setting $XAUTHORITY to point to a file under
> > $HOME/.ssh/?
> 
> i think this is exactly what
> 	.ssh/rc
> 	/etc/sshrc
> 	.ssh/environment
> are for. i don't like to have 100 ways for doing
> the same thing. ssh is not perl!

I've tried using these to reset cookies path, to go under /tmp, but it is
not possible for the general case (every user).  If you configure each
user individually with slightly modified config file, then yes.  
Otherwise no.

Please see the thread:

Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 09:34:56 +0300 (EEST)
From: Pekka Savola <pekkas at netcore.fi>
To: <openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org>
Subject: Xauthority location: only per-user setting possible

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