On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 16:32 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >>
> >> I have enabled all the X11Forwarding stuffs. It appears to be being
> >> ignored. But as long as the "ssh -X gene@shop" works, its ok by me.
> >
> >You need 'ssh -Y' for most things now. The documentation on this point
> >leaves a lot to be desired.
> >
> I hear a hearty chorus of Amen's to that. Frankly, linux documentation is
> in far worse shape than it was in 1997, mostly because of the forking
> away from the universal manpage that has been done to the doc format.
I didn't mean it was that hard to find. The terms just don't mean
anything to me:
-Y Enables trusted X11 forwarding. Trusted X11 forwardings are
not
subjected to the X11 SECURITY extension controls.
What does trusted mean in this context?
> I
> don't know of the times I've needed to look at something in docbook
> format, even coming to this list to ask what others are using to
> view/print those things, and have been universally ignored, I assume
> because everyone is supposed to know WTF a docbook file is.
Docbook is a write-only metaformat. There are tools to convert to
an assortment of readable formats.
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Les Mikesell
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