Re: [gentoo-user] is the X11 Security extension required for xauth?

[Adam Carter]

>    - - xcsecurity  : Build Security extension
>
> but I don't find anybody asking why X11 forwarding doesn't work under
> gentoo.  What am I missing?
>
> Unless I'm missing something, X11 forwarding works fine for me on Gentoo,
> ssh'ing either to or from an Artix Linux box.  Unfortunately, I'm on the
> road, so can't check any of my Gentoo settings for several days.  Have you
> checked your use flags for xorg-server?  I'm assuming xcsecurity needs to
> be set, but don't know what the default state is.
>
Jack are you using ssh -X or -Y ?

For me -Y works (but it assumes everything is secure and doesn't apply the
security controls that -X does).

But -X produces
"Warning: untrusted X11 forwarding setup failed: xauth key data not
generated"

but the server has an ~/.Xauthority file, which oddly gets created by an
ssh -Y session....