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Bug 420339 - X11 forwarding fails because x11-apps/xauth is not installed
Summary: X11 forwarding fails because x11-apps/xauth is not installed
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo/Alt
Classification: Unclassified
Component: FreeBSD (show other bugs)
Hardware: All All
: Normal trivial (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo X packagers
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Keywords: Bug
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Reported: 2012-06-09 00:33 UTC by Richard Yao (RETIRED)
Modified: 2019-03-03 19:32 UTC (History)
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Description Richard Yao (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-06-09 00:33:08 UTC 
If x11-apps/xauth is not installed, X11 Forwarding will fail.

You can installing x11-terms/xterm on a system with no other X software without pulling x11-apps/xauth into the dependency graph. This causes a runtime failure when you attempt to forward xterm.
Comment 1 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn gentoo-dev 2012-06-09 00:43:55 UTC 
Should work without xauth if you disable access control on the server.
Comment 2 Alexis Ballier gentoo-dev 2012-06-13 11:35:33 UTC 
nothing to do with bsd...
Comment 3 Matt Turner gentoo-dev 2019-03-03 19:32:20 UTC 
I'm not sure what you're suggesting. Install xauth as a dependency of any X package? That seems awful. I think comment #1 makes the case that it's not a required dependency by any means.