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Bug 45157 - X11 Forwarding for sshd on bastion*
X11 Forwarding for sshd on bastion*
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: Wikimedia Labs
Classification: Unclassified
Infrastructure (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Unprioritized normal
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Assigned To: Ryan Lane
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Reported: 2013-02-19 17:03 UTC by Marc A. Pelletier
Modified: 2013-02-19 18:50 UTC (History)
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Description Marc A. Pelletier 2013-02-19 17:03:42 UTC 
Some tools may need to use GUIs during deployment or configuration (in particular, qmon)

While tunnelling can work around the lack of open X11 forwarding, doing so is less secure since it doesn't cleanly handle xauth.

Security impact:  Minimal; only affects users whose clients have a $DISPLAY set, and who turned on X11 forwarding.
Comment 1 Marc A. Pelletier 2013-02-19 18:50:41 UTC 
Turns out there is an alternate method where only the instance needs to be configured to allow X11 forwarding, so the issue is moot.
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