Interesting Change In ssh Behavior

[youshi10 at u.washington.edu]

On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Tim Daneliuk wrote:

> Tim Daneliuk wrote:
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>
>>> What does ssh'ing with verbose mode show?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I was just doing this as your email arrived.  This looks suspicious (!):
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>>              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:
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>>          /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth
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>>
>> Very strange ...
>
>
> And now .... the answer:
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>   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