forward the dbus session?

[Peter Stuge]

Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> And the socket being forwarded will most likely be a UNIX (socat
> calls them "abstract") socket.  AFAIK ssh does not handle UNIX
> sockets currently, does it?

I seem to recall previous posts about forwarding UNIX sockets. Maybe
it was already implemented by someone? Search archive and bugzilla.


> How would the setting of the DISPLAY variable be done then?

SendEnv in ssh_config and AcceptEnv in sshd_config can be used to
push out environment variables, but I guess you want to customize a
little on the server to update the socket name.

I guess the objection is simply that dbus is too fluffy for anyone to
jump on it, but if you can provide a patch which turns out to be very
small and if you can demonstrate/explain how the feature is a great
benefit for users then it has a better chance of being included
anyway.


//Peter