Bug#236936: addendum
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 04:11:54PM +0000, Jonathan H N Chin wrote:
> [ Forwarded to the bug at Colin's behest ]
> > I think it should be in the upgrading notes in README.Debian, and
> > perhaps in NEWS.Debian. I'll take a look.
>
> 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.
>
> Perhaps this could be noted in the upgrading notes too.
>
> Finally, the ForwardX11Trusted option could usefully be documented
> in "Site-wide defaults" list of the new ssh_config that is installed
> so that people diff'ing the new and old versions find something.
Agreed.
However, I've asked upstream if they'd throw a wobbly if I switched the
default to 'ForwardX11Trusted yes'; it seems a bit close to the freeze
to be introducing this kind of regression.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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