Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <404CC7AB.1050303@msu.edu> Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 14:21:15 -0500 From: Harold L Hunt II User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Windows/20040207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: OpenSSH configuration and many recent problems References: <1078745363988.tulitanssi.319270.VLN1156dxdp9cUdtLW66rg@luukku.com> <20040308140401.GA23243@cygbert.vinschen.de> In-Reply-To: <20040308140401.GA23243@cygbert.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus: None found by Clam AV Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Mar 8 14:17, Alexander Gottwald wrote: > >>On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 tulitanssi@luukku.com wrote: >> >> >>>Hi all, >>> >>>just wanted you to know, that OpenSSH 3.8 configuration seems to be the reason >>>for some of the recent problems presented here (e.g. AltGr not working, emacs crash). >>>I've had those problems, too. >>>Takuma Murakami suggested that I checked my OpenSSH configuration. >>>When I added "ForwardX11Trusted yes" to /etc/ssh_config, all my problems went away. >> >>This is a very big problem. We get about 2 bugreports per day on the cygwin-xfree >>mailing list. What about making the X11ForwardTrusted default on cygwin? > > > I'm not actually keen to change another default setting of OpenSSH to an > unsafe setting on Cygwin by default. It's bad enough to set StrictModes > to no by default and I already have stomach pain due to that. > > Especially I don't see why this setting should have another default on > Cygwin as on any other OS. There's no difference between Cygwin and > other OSes which justifies this measure, right? The only difference I can think of is that none of the other ssh implementations (that I know of) on our platform, such as PuTTY and SSH Secure Shell, enable this feature by default (or even have this feature). Harold -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/