OpenSSH 3.9 released (fwd)

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2004, Bob Rasmussen wrote:
>On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:
>
>> Bob Rasmussen propounded (on Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 08:18:48AM -0700):
>> | I thought you guys might be interested in this. Of particular interest, I
>> | think, is the ability to tell the daemon to accept certain environment
>> | variables sent from the client.
>>
>> So far as I can see, that ability was in prior releases of OpenSSH as
>> well, providing you have PermitUserEnvironment=yes in the sshd_config file.
>
>No, that's not the same thing.
>
>What you refer to is environment variables being set by the server, as
>configured on the server.
>
>What is new is the ability to send environment variables to the server
>from the client.

FYI:  There's a new ssh_config variable, ForwardX11Trusted, that
must be set to ``yes'' if you want remote X11 forwarding to work.
The weird thing is that some X-clients work properly (e.g. xeyes)
while no perl::Tk scripts work.  It took me a while to figure out
why things weren't working when I installes SuSE 9.1 Professional, 
then I got the same thing when updating the OpenPKG.org openssh
package from openssh-3.7.1p2 to openssh-3.8.1p1.

Bill
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