[Info-vax] openvms and xterm

[motk]

On 22/4/24 22:28, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2024-04-19, motk <yep at yep.yep> wrote:
>>
>> Because it's _broken_. ssh x11 forwarding has been deliberately broken
>> by _design_ for a _decade_, if you're found using X11 in a corporate
>> environemt you will get an earnest conversation with people with no
>> sense of humour, the world is real and here and now.

> In what way has it been deliberately broken (and in which versions of
> software) ?

The expectations that -X requires no longer exist by default, for a 
start. The complete lack of interest in keeping it working.

> BTW, to anyone using X11 over ssh, it is a standard recommendation to use
> "ssh -X" instead of "ssh -Y" so that additional security restrictions
> are active. See the ssh man page for details.

-Y exists because people complained that -X was too restrictive IMR.

> Simon.

-- 
motk