Re: [Libssh] X11 forwarding and Forward listening

[Vic Lee <llyzs@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Aris,

I am raising this discussion again because you now got one demand from
my project grdc :)

Basically, I am going to support XDMCP in grdc next release and I have
everything ready to work, except to secure the X11 connection using
libssh. Forward listening seems is the only way to secure X11
connection.

I can work on this feature and submit a patch if you'd like.

My idea is to implement a general forward listening API; then X11
forwarding can be implemented using forward listening on port 6000+n.

Thanks,

Vic

On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 11:35 +0200, Aris Adamantiadis wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am happy our project serve to yours. The X11 forwarding and Forward
> listening features are not currently implemented. They are in the todo
> list. The reason for this is that we got no demand yet for X11
> forwarding, and that forward listening needs to adapt the architecture
> of libssh to handle callback handlers. But stay in tune !
> 
> Aris
> 
> Vic Lee a crit :
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > First of all thanks for this great project!
> >
> > Acually I am using almost all SSH client features (port forwarding,
> > shell, sftp) in my project (grdc) so I really appreciate it.
> >
> > Recently I am seeking the possibility to use X11 forwarding. This is
> > the the feature in openssh -X option.
> >
> > Another feature is forward listening: ask the SSH server to listen on
> > a port, and if a connection is made, create a tunnel to the SSH client.
> >
> > And I think X11 forwarding can be implemented through forward
> > listening (by asking the SSH server to listen on a dummy x11 display
> > and tunnel back to the local X server) but I need some more time to
> > look at the openssh source code to understand exactly how it works.
> >
> > Are these two features already planned in the future?
> >
> > Thanks again!
> >
> > Vic
> >
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