[Xquartz-dev] Ssh login to other Mac launches X11 locally

Tom Lane tgl at sss.pgh.pa.us
Sun Jan 18 15:37:24 PST 2015


Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia <jeremyhu at apple.com> writes:
> On Jan 18, 2015, at 09:05, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa at Web.DE> wrote:
>> When I simply perform 'ssh Leopard' or 'ssh Tiger' (signifying the OS) the local X server, XQuartz 2.7.8_beta1 (xorg-server 1.16.0), launches – which launches a few X clients for a second time.

> That means that something is shoving data into the socket which is causing XQuartz.app to launch.  I don't see that behavior here, so I suspect it is a local configuration issue.

Seems like you should disable X11 forwarding if you don't want a local X11
server to start.  It's evidently enabled at the moment:

>> debug1: Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication spoofing.

			regards, tom lane


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