Re: Practical forwarding problem

[Frank Cusack <fcusack%fcusack.com@localhost>]

On September 23, 2005 2:31:09 AM -0400 der Mouse <mouse%Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA@localhost> wrote:
> > >    X11 connection forwarding should stop when the session channel is
> > >    closed.  However, already opened forwardings should not be
> > >    automatically closed when the session channel is closed.
>
> > > To me, that quite clearly says that I *should* shut down the
> > > forwarding when the session channel closes.
>
> > I don't read that.  What I read is that new X11 requests should no
> > longer be accepted, but that existing (_already opened_) forwardings
> > should live on.
>
> I suspect we may be in furious agreement here,

We are, and I misread your original message as saying that the xterm
started in the background is no longer functional.  If you start a
command in that xterm which requires a new X connection, it should
fail, from my reading of connect-25.

However, I realize now that I don't quite understand the difference
between a session and a channel, so I'll bow out, hopefully gracefully.

Interestingly, this has just come up as an openssh bug,
<http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1086>.

-frank