ssh -X remote does not work due to problem with xauth

[Jan Beich]

Niclas Zeising <zeising+freebsd at daemonic.se> writes:

> On 05/10/18 21:47, Christoph Moench-Tegeder wrote:
>
>> ## Christoph Moench-Tegeder (cmt at burggraben.net):
>>
>>> I haven't yet checked what causes these differing defaults.
>>
>> Well, now that I thought about it: most Linux distributions build their
>> X server with "--enable-xcsecurity" in the configure flags. FreeBSD
>> does not set that flag, as far as I can see. Next question: why?
>>
>
> Hi!
> It could be because of backwards compatibility, or, because at least I
> wasn't really aware of that flag.  Is it for xserver or some other
> package?

See https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=221984