[PATCH] tcp-wrappers support extended to x11 forwards
Markus Friedl
markus at openbsd.org
Thu Nov 29 04:07:30 EST 2001
On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 11:20:10AM -0500, Dan Astoorian wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 07:30:15 EST, Damien Miller writes:
> > >
> > > I haven verified the need for this, I've been listening comments
> > > on this list related to the forwarded X11 ports. I've understood
> > > that if you use localhost:x.y as your display some (missbehaving)
> > > applications will break.
>
> FWIW, the problem is with Xlib, not the applications themselves. Not
> that it matters.
did you test Kevin's patch?
> If the OpenSSH maintainers agree that supporting Unix sockets--assuming
> that doing so doesn't complicate the code significantly--may be the best
> solution to this problem, I'd be willing to explore this further.
you need to put all of XTrans into openssh. i don't think this
is a good idea.
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