At 6:56 AM -0500 7/30/2001, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 08:02:39PM -0500, Tony Mantler wrote:
>
>> Authenticated X sessions make me want to kill people.
>
>> Please do enlighten me, SSH folk, how do I disable authentication on ssh
>> tunneled X sessions?
>
>Why bother tunneling it through SSH in the first place, if you want
>to have a total lack of security?
If my workstation is hiding behind NAT, tunneling is the only convinient
way to get X windows through.
Plus, even for non NAT-hidden sessions, SSH doesn't appear to set any
environment varables indicating the originating server, so having a login
script set DISPLAY automatically is a bit tricky, not to mention even less
secure.
>> (and no, "don't do that" or "set DISPLAY manually" are not appropriate
>> answers, thanks)
>
>Turn on X11 forwarding in both the client and the server and type
>"ssh otherhostname" and it works automatically.
>
>If that's not what you want to hear, then you need to give some more
>background for your question.
Without xauth?
I rarely if ever connect to systems that are either A: multi-user or B:
even remotely untrusted, so xauth authentication really just gets in my way
for me, and I'd like to be able to turn it off.
Surely I can't be the only person on the planet who's had the urge to
disable it.
Cheers - Tony 'Nicoya' Mantler :)
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