Re: CVS commit: basesrc

[Luke Mewburn <lukem%wasabisystems.com@localhost>]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 08:17:26PM -0400, Perry Metzger wrote:
> 
> Luke Mewburn <lukem%wasabisystems.com@localhost> writes:
> > > Can we reopen the issue?
> > 
> > No, I don't think so.
> > 
> > Have a look at the way that X11Forwarding is implemented. It effectively
> > comprises of:
> >     * creating a tunnel for the X traffic (ssh & sshd)
> >     * creating a one-time $DISPLAY (e.g, "server:55") and and
> >       appropriate xauth cookie for that session (ssh)
> >     * passing this new $DISPLAY and cookie (ssh to remote sshd to deal with)
> > 
> > Our login(1) can't handle the cookie (or the DISPLAY, unless it's in the
> > environment before-hand).
> 
> It handles DISPLAY just fine. Try it -- it gets passed properly. What
> it isn't handling is the the creation of the X authority file for the
> cookie.
> 
> > Hacking login(1) to support this cookie
> > munging is something that I strongly object to.
> 
> So have the sshd create the .Xauthority file and THEN call login. Not
> A Big Deal. You can just steal the code from session.c that does it
> right now, put it into a pre-amble that gets called before login is
> called, and go.

You have the source :-)

I'll point out that this behaviour (UseLogin && X11Forwarding) has
never worked AFAICT. I was just ensuring that the user and system
administrator has appropriate feedback and documentation to this
affect, rather than wondering (like I did) why X11Forwarding wasn't
working without any obvious reason why.