Bug#236936: addendum

[Matthew Vernon <matthew@sel.cam.ac.uk>]

Jonathan H N Chin writes:
 > [ Forwarded to the bug at Colin's behest ]
 
I read bug reports too. Sometimes I even do something useful with
them. 
 
 > Another thing that I suspect is going to bite people with this new
 > setting is that the xauth credentials time out after 120 seconds with
 > no X clients active.
 > 
 > I just found the place in ssh.c where the "untrusted timeout 120" is
 > hardwired, and which explains the second part of my earlier bug report.
 
That seems somewhat sub-optimal to me. 
 
Colin: do we want to consider making this configurable?

Matthew

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