Re: ssh -X remote does not work due to problem with xauth
Christoph Moench-Tegeder <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.x11 |
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## Niclas Zeising ([email protected]): > > 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. I'd say "everyone else uses that flag, so we should, too". And that flag isn't really new, e.g. Redhat re-enabled it in 2013: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:1620 > Is it for xserver or some other package? That would be x11-servers/xorg-server, yes. > 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. I'll try that tomorrow or saturday. Regards, Christoph -- Spare Space _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"