[Xquartz-dev] x11 forwarding, El Capitan

[Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia]

> On Oct 3, 2015, at 06:31, Martin Costabel <costabel at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> 
> On 3/10/15 12:38, John Koren wrote:
>> 
>> After upgrading to El Capitan, my macs are not able to do x11forwarding.
> 
> Same here.
> 
> []
>> I noticed that in El Capitan system-wide ssh configuration files are now
>> in /etc/ssh.
> 
> Xquartz doesn't seem to have noticed this. It creates a file /etc/sshd_config containing the 2 lines
> 
> # XAuthLocation added by XQuartz (http://xquartz.macosforge.org)
> XAuthLocation /opt/X11/bin/xauth
> 
> This file is no longer used, so the XAuthLocation line is forgotten.
> Add it to /etc/ssh/sshd_config, and X11 forwarding will work (it did for me, anyway).

Please file a ticket to update the postinstall script.

> 
>> I enabled X11forwarding and included
>> 
>> 
>> # XAuthLocation added by XQuartz (http://xquartz.macosforge.org
>> <http://xquartz.macosforge.org/>)
>> Host *
>>    XAuthLocation /opt/X11/bin/xauth
>> 
>> in the ssh_config and sshd_config files in /etc/ssh.
>> 
>> Has anybody faced this issue with El Capitan and found a solution to it?
> 
> Adding it to sshd_config worked for me, without the Host * line though, which seems to be a ssh_config thing.
> 
> -- 
> Martin
> 
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