Interesting Change In ssh Behavior

[Tim Daneliuk]

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" ?????