Bug#236936: addendum
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 04:53:13PM +0000, Matthew Vernon wrote:
> 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?
I mentioned it on openssh-unix-dev. Let's see what they say; I'd rather
give them the chance first so that we don't have to maintain
compatibility aliases in the future for configuration options we defined
once ...
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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