What risk is X11Forwarding to a server?

Dave Dykstra dwd at bell-labs.com
Fri Oct 26 23:28:06 EST 2001


On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 10:28:55AM +1000, Damien Miller wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Dave Dykstra wrote:
> 
> > Why, then, doesn't OpenSSH set X11Forwarding=yes by default on the server?
> 
> As Markus said - this has been discussed before, check the archives.

Ok, I tried to search the archives and didn't come up with any relevant
discussion.  Can somebody please help me out and tell me where it is?

Thanks,

- Dave Dykstra



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