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Date:      Fri, 11 May 2018 07:35:41 +0200
From:      Jan Beich <jbeich@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Niclas Zeising <zeising+freebsd@daemonic.se>
Cc:        freebsd-x11@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ssh -X remote does not work due to problem with xauth
Message-ID:  <k1sa-iwk2-wny@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <466cd23b-344a-8d8a-d936-3ac38edff4a8@daemonic.se> (Niclas Zeising's message of "Thu, 10 May 2018 21:57:50 %2B0200")
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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Niclas Zeising <zeising+freebsd@daemonic.se> writes:

> 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?

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



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