bin/119607: ssh and sshd has wrong path to xauth
Kris Kennaway
kris at FreeBSD.org
Sun Jan 13 00:00:06 UTC 2008
The following reply was made to PR bin/119607; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Kris Kennaway <kris at FreeBSD.org>
To: Bengt Ahlgren <bengta at sics.se>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/119607: ssh and sshd has wrong path to xauth
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 00:50:16 +0100
Bengt Ahlgren wrote:
> Kris Kennaway <kris at FreeBSD.org> writes:
>
>> Technically you are correct but /usr/X11R6 should be a symlink to
>> /usr/local on a correctly functioning FreeBSD 6.3 install.
>
> OK, didn't know that. I did a source upgrade from 6.2 with
> corresponding xorg ports, so /usr/X11R6 existed. Then I removed all
> ports (and what was left of /usr/X11R6) and installed new ports. So
> no link was created, and X11 forwarding stopped working.
>
> Thanks for a quick reply! Feel free to close this PR then!
Yeah, an upgrade from older x.org should have followed specific steps in
/usr/ports/UPDATING which would have created this symlink. If
everything else is working then probably all you need to do is create it
by hand.
Kris
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