On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 11:57:59AM -0500, Brandon D. Valentine wrote: > On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, John Baldwin wrote: > > > Would be nice if there could be a 'WITH_TCP' or some such option for > > the port to enable normal behavior for those people who aren't super > > paranoid. Having an uber-secure box doesn't do you any good if you > > can't use it to get actual work done. > > Word. > > I'm not near my FreeBSD machines at this moment but this weekend I'll > hack up the necessary patch if nobody else bothers. Probably better to > call it something less ambigious like X11_LISTEN_TCP or similar so those > who want to put it in make.conf don't incur namespace ambiguity and > possible collision with other ports that might use similar make > variables with different semantic meaning. WITH_TCP doesn't have the > same sort of global meaning that WITH_GNOME does.
May I suggest WITH_STARTX_TCP ? > The other option is to do away with the insecurity of listen_tcp by > teaching OpenSSH how to setup X11 forwarding using unix domain sockets. > See this message for details: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2000/debian-user-200002/msg00109.html > > This is probably the most worthwhile and secure avenue. To be perfectly > honest I'm wondering why I still have yet to notice support for it in > OpenSSH. > > Brandon D. Valentine > -- > http://www.geekpunk.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ++[>++++++<-]>[<++++++>-]<.>++++[>+++++<-]>[<+++++>-]<+.+++++++..++ > +.>>+++++[<++++++>-]<++.<<+++++++++++++++.>.+++.------.--------.>+. My $0.02 -- Paul Schenkeveld To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
