Patch to add "warn" value to ForwardX11 and ForwardAgent

Jim Knoble jmknoble at pobox.com
Tue Oct 30 15:35:57 EST 2001


Circa 2001-Oct-30 12:03:29 +1100 dixit Damien Miller:

: On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Dave Dykstra wrote:
: > With "warn", you can still use forwarding even though you know a server is
: > not very well secured, and you will be notified if someone does actually
: > break into the server and try to take over the forwarding on your session.
: 
: By which stage it is too late.
: 
: What would be nicer is some way for the client to get the user to accept
: / reject each forwarding request.

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