Yes, somehow XAuthLocation went missing from my sshd_config. That fixed my problem.
You made the connection .. thanks for the kind words about XEphem. > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 7 May 2020 00:25:07 -0400 > From: "Richard L. Hamilton" <[email protected]> > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Subject: ssh X11 port forwarding failure, was Re: X11-users Digest, > Vol 17, Issue 24 > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > 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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