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Bugtraq: Re: SSH / X11 auth: needless complexity -> security problems?

Re: SSH / X11 auth: needless complexity -> security problems?

From: Theo de Raadt <deraadt_at_cvs.openbsd.org>
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 14:33:49 -0600

> this feature was inherited from ossh and the reason was:
> 1) if $HOME is on NFS, then the cookie travels unencrypted
> over the network, this defeats the purpose of X11-fwding
> 2) $HOME/.Xauthority gets polluted with temorary cookies.
> however, i'm not sure whether the benefit justifies the complexity,
> so this feature could be removed from future OpenSSH versions.

I cannot tell which is more important. No wait, I can.

OK, let's do the home dir thing then.

In the NFS case, if someone is sniffing your NFS traffic you are
fucked from here to hell.
Received on Jun 10 2001

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