[PATCH] os: Treat ssh as a non-local client

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Tue Dec 8 12:31:53 PST 2015


On 12/ 8/15 11:31 AM, Adam Jackson wrote:
> What I'd really prefer is that forwarding proxies (including ssh)
> implement support for the extended connection handshake, which allows
> the client to ask to be treated as non-local:
>
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=e2c7d70e5ddb8b17676a13ceebfbb87d14d63243
>
> But since ssh is to a first-order approximation the only forwarding X
> proxy anybody uses, we might as well special case it here too.

I suppose we could implement that in app/xfwp as an example, but I have no idea
if anyone would notice or still uses it.  (I'm in the process of removing all
the X.Org proxying programs from Solaris in favor of ssh tunneling, since I
agree that it's all we've seen anyone use in years.)

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