Bug 2295

Summary: clarify the effect of ForwardX11Timeout=0 in ssh config
Product: Portable OpenSSH Reporter: Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo>
Component: DocumentationAssignee: Assigned to nobody <unassigned-bugs>
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P5    
Version: 6.7p1   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   

Description Christoph Anton Mitterer 2014-10-17 06:20:43 AEDT 
Hi.

This is a follow-up to https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/pull/9

I've tried what happens when I set
ForwardX11Timeout=0(s|w|m...)

It seems that after having logged into a session, one can not longer start any X client (or better said, the program starts, but it cannot connect to the X server on the local end of my ssh).

But apparently something like
ssh host xman
still works. So I've expected that it would mean "direct execution of an X client allows it's connection".

So I've tried
echo "xman &" | ssh host
which I've expected to be just like normal session login,... but "immediately" starting the client... thus I guess it wouldn't work.
However, it also allows connection.


So what exactly is ForwardX11Timeout=0?
I can adapt my pull request to include this information, once I have it.


Cheers,
Chris.