Interesting Change In ssh Behavior

[Tim Daneliuk]

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
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>>
>> 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" ?????
> 

P.S. I realize that 4.x is no longer supported, but at the very least I'd expect this to mean that
it wouldn't change any further... hmmmmmmm ....