> - - 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....
