Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:47:51 -0500 From: Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Interesting Change In ssh Behavior Message-ID: <46785D17.1010804@tundraware.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0706191529450.5830@hymn01.u.washington.edu> References: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0706191529450.5830@hymn01.u.washington.edu>
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youshi10@u.washington.edu wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > >> 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" ????? > > The /usr/X11R6 search path was removed recently in CURRENT. Coincidence? > > -Garrett Yabut this is 4.x - nothing is supposed to be changing ... or so I thought... Besides, on 6.x with xorg 7.2, the new path is in /usr/local. I dunno how it ended up looking in /bin. I've written up a PR, but given the unsupported status of 4.x, I doubt anyone will bother, especially given the simple workaround...
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