At 11:59 AM -0500 7/30/2001, Greg A. Woods wrote:
>[ On Monday, July 30, 2001 at 07:17:55 (-0500), Tony Mantler wrote: ]
>> Subject: Re: I hate xauth
>>
>> I rarely if ever connect to systems that are either A: multi-user or B:
>> even remotely untrusted,
>
>Do you understand how trust propogates implicitly by your act of
>trusting a remote host, especially when you're running the likes of X11?
[...]
I also personally run 99% of the systems I connect to, and the remaining
few are run by close friends. ;)
Besides, even above that, I'm not exactly paranoid about system security so
far as X goes: I *am* the kind of person who rather likes 'xhost +', and I
rather like to be able to use it wherever I go.
>> so xauth authentication really just gets in my way
>> for me, and I'd like to be able to turn it off.
>
>I've never had any problems with SSH setting up xauth authentication for
>my remote X11 clients. It just works. It's so clean and simple and
>automatic that I can't even quite imagine doing it any other way any more!
'man su'.
Interestingly, ssh's xauth seems to cause vim to misbehave in a very
non-transparent way: any invocation of either 'vim' or 'gvim' causes an
immediate exit with some nasty X errors, whereas usually when it can't
connect to an X server it'll operate normally in text mode.
>> --
>> Tony "Nicoya" Mantler - Renaissance Nerd Extraordinaire -
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada --
>>http://nicoya.feline.pp.se/
>
>Now those three places are really a long way appart from each other! ;-)
Three?
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> Greg A. Woods
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Cheers - Tony 'Nicoya' Mantler :)
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada -- http://nicoya.feline.pp.se/
