I just discovered something. I was trying to run XMMS on my media box over an SSH connection--like I have done for years--and xmms kept crashing with a "BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied)" error. This was a new one to me. At first I thought it was related to Xorg versus XFree, but then I found the thread posted below.
Apparently, there were some security issues with X11 forwarding in SSH, so they broke backward compatability and implemented a new security model. The long and short of it is, if you really need the older forwarding model because of some misbehaving application (such as xmms), then you can use the "-Y" option instead of the "-X" option for "ssh".
Apparently I haven't run XMMS over SSH as recently as I thought I had. ;-)
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-04/msg00348.html
Posted by enigma at January 17, 2005 09:47 PM