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Date:      Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:31:28 -0500
From:      Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Interesting Change In ssh Behavior
Message-ID:  <46783D20.1000508@tundraware.com>
In-Reply-To: <46783B57.8030609@tundraware.com>
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Tim Daneliuk wrote:


>> What does ssh'ing with verbose mode show?
>>
>>
> 
> I was just doing this as your email arrived.  This looks suspicious (!):
> 
>              Remote: No xauth program; cannot forward with spoofing
> 
> 
> This is on an old 4.11 system updated to latest stable.  xauth does indeed exist in:
> 
>          /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth
> 
> 
> Very strange ...


And now .... the answer:

   doing a 'strings sshd' returns the fact that it thinks (on this latest build of 4.11-STABLE) that
   xauth lives in /bin !

   I did an ln -s /usr/X11R6/..../xauth /bin/xauth  and everythingworks again.

So .. is this a bug or a new "feature" ?????





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