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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