Bug#237021: X11-forwarding not working
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 10:12:41PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> > There was a change in X forwarding in 3.8 to allow (and default to)
> > using an untrusted X cookie. That said, just starting new clients
> > should definitely work, and seems to work for me.
>
> *ouch*
>
> Could you add a NEWS item about this issue? Plenty of clients don't
> work in untrusted mode, and it's got all kinds of strange side effects
> (e.g. no access to the X selection).
>
> It's certainly a far-reaching change.
I think it's become clear that it's too far-reaching at this point in
Debian's release cycle; we need time to prepare the rest of the
distribution for this sort of thing if it's to become the default. It's
new in 3.8, so even upstream haven't got much feedback about it yet.
I've committed a change which sets the ForwardX11Trusted default to yes
instead of no (and documents the whole business in README.Debian); I
plan to upload this as 1:3.8p1-2 if nobody shouts too loudly about that.
While Damien Miller upstream said "Some of the maturing needs to happen
in the X11 server libraries, toolkits and applications as well", he
didn't object to this proposed change.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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