ssh -X remote does not work due to problem with xauth
Niclas Zeising
zeising at freebsd.org
Sun May 20 14:57:29 UTC 2018
On 05/10/18 22:09, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> El día Thursday, May 10, 2018 a las 09:57:50PM +0200, Niclas Zeising escribió:
>
>> 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?
>> If you have time, please try it out and see what happens. Usually you can
>> add it to CONFIGURE_ARGS= in the ports makefile and recompile the port. I'm
>> occupied elsewhere currently, but if I remember I'll look into it as well.
>> Regards
>
> I did a quick check by running 'make configure' in ports/x11-servers/xorg-server
> and --enable-xcsecurity is not used; I will recompile it with enabled
> and report back.
>
This should be fixed as of r470462.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/470462
Regards
--
Niclas Zeising
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