Re: X11-users Digest, Vol 17, Issue 26
Re: X11-users Digest, Vol 17, Issue 26
- Subject: Re: X11-users Digest, Vol 17, Issue 26
- From: Elwood Downey via X11-users <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 7 May 2020 12:04:06 -0700
Yes, somehow XAuthLocation went missing from my sshd_config. That fixed my
problem.
You made the connection .. thanks for the kind words about XEphem.
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> Date: Thu, 7 May 2020 00:25:07 -0400
> From: "Richard L. Hamilton" <email@hidden>
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> Subject: ssh X11 port forwarding failure, was Re: X11-users Digest,
> Vol 17, Issue 24
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> I put the following back at the end of /etc/ssh/sshd_config (from another
> machine) to get it straightened out on a new laptop (and put it back again
> after an upgrade, probably; IMO, even if they think their flavor of a
> config file is more magically secure, they ought to save people's edited
> version during upgrade so a user can manually put it back or merge changes;
> maybe they do, and I just don't know where they put it).
>
> The last two are optional, although you clearly don't want the DISPLAY
> value generated to conflict with anything directly used by your actual X
> server.
> XAuthLocation /opt/X11/bin/auth
> # or for MacPorts X11.app rather than XQuartz.app,
> # XAuthLocation /opt/local/bin/xauth
> X11Forwarding yes
> X11DisplayOffset 10
> X11UseLocalhost yes
>
>
> PS xephem is probably the best EVER use I've seen of X resources for
> friendly configuration of a Motif app! It's a mystery to me why nobody else
> seems to have done it like that, with others just leaving people to guess
> what the resources might be and edit .Xdefaults by hand (or recompile libXt
> with editres support, and use editres to discover them; I made a
> LD_PRELOADable .so that wrapped the necessary functions in a client's use
> of shared libXt to make editres work on Solaris without recompiling libXt,
> but I don't know if I got that to work on macOS).
>
>
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