Debian Bug report logs - #271714
ssh: enabling X11Forward yes fails mysteriously unless xauth is installed

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From: Walter Tautz <[email protected]>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>

Subject: ssh: enabling X11Forward yes fails mysteriously unless xauth is installed

Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 14:46:03 -0400

Package: ssh
Version: 1:3.8.1p1-8
Severity: normal

I notice that xbase-clients is selected which is appropriate since 
X11Forward is no be default, however, the uniniated user will wonder 
why after enabling X11Forward yes that it isn't working. No message
to the effect that xauth must be installed is given only that the
DISPLAY variable seems screwed up. Obviously having some experience
 in the debian universe I immediately read /usr/share/doc/ssh and found 
the reason. I wonder if ssh can somehow output a message indicating
the absence of ssh. Of course on most machines one has X11 running
and this includes xbase-clients so this kind of problem would hardly
ever be noticed.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.5-1-686-smp
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages ssh depends on:
ii  adduser                     3.59         Add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf                     1.4.30.2     Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                        1.10.23      Package maintenance system for Deb
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libpam-modules              0.76-22      Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-runtime              0.76-22      Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g                    0.76-22      Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libssl0.9.7                 0.9.7d-4     SSL shared libraries
ii  libwrap0                    7.6.dbs-6    Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  zlib1g                      1:1.2.1.1-7  compression library - runtime

-- debconf information:
* ssh/privsep_tell:
  ssh/insecure_rshd:
  ssh/privsep_ask: true
  ssh/ssh2_keys_merged:
  ssh/user_environment_tell:
* ssh/forward_warning:
  ssh/insecure_telnetd:
  ssh/new_config: true
* ssh/use_old_init_script: true
* ssh/protocol2_only: true
  ssh/encrypted_host_key_but_no_keygen:
* ssh/run_sshd: true
* ssh/SUID_client: true

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