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Date:      Thu, 10 May 2018 22:09:57 +0200
From:      Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>
To:        freebsd-x11@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ssh -X remote does not work due to problem with xauth
Message-ID:  <20180510200957.GA21218@sh4-5.1blu.de>
In-Reply-To: <466cd23b-344a-8d8a-d936-3ac38edff4a8@daemonic.se>
References:  <20180510182928.GA3747@c720-r314251> <20180510192510.GA38033@elch.exwg.net> <20180510194701.GB38033@elch.exwg.net> <466cd23b-344a-8d8a-d936-3ac38edff4a8@daemonic.se>

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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@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.

	matthias

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