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From: Dan Woods (dwoodsucalgary.ca)
Date: Sat Jul 06 2002 - 15:30:23 CDT

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    Frederic Lepied wrote:
    >
    > "Richard E. Perlotto II" <richardperlotto.com> writes:
    >
    > > In attempting to set up a secure 8.2 installation, I have
    > > set the base security level to be 'paranoid', or as I would
    > > assume, level 5. After doing so, I can no longer do X11
    > > forwarding to my other box even though it is configured within
    > > sshd.
    > >
    > > What has msec done to prevent this from occurring? When using
    > > ssh to login into the server, the display is not set, and even
    > > if it is manually set (DISPLAY=system:10.0), the X sessions
    > > are not sent along the SSH tunnel.
    > >
    > > All of this works fine under a box that has not been configured
    > > as paranoid. I cannot seem to find any fundamental configuration
    > > differences besides certain file permissions, but this fails
    > > even when run as root.
    >
    > Is the user on the remote host in the xgrp group ? Can you do a ssh -v -X
    > to see what happens ?

    # man mseclib

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