Bug#535630: [pkg-fso-maint] Bug#532900: dropbear: has no more existent /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth hardcoded
- To: Luca Capello <luca@pca.it>, 535630@bugs.debian.org
- Cc: Axel Beckert <abe@deuxchevaux.org>, 532900@bugs.debian.org, "ML Debian freesmartphone.org Team" <pkg-fso-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org>, control@bugs.debian.org
- Subject: Bug#535630: [pkg-fso-maint] Bug#532900: dropbear: has no more existent /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth hardcoded
- From: Jens Seidel <jensseidel@users.sf.net>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:01:37 +0200
- Message-id: <[🔎] 20090727080135.GA3942@merkur.sol.de>
- Mail-followup-to: Luca Capello <luca@pca.it>, 535630@bugs.debian.org, Axel Beckert <abe@deuxchevaux.org>, 532900@bugs.debian.org, "ML Debian freesmartphone.org Team" <pkg-fso-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org>, control@bugs.debian.org
- Reply-to: Jens Seidel <jensseidel@users.sf.net>, 535630@bugs.debian.org
- In-reply-to: <878wifcnvr.fsf@gismo.pca.it>
- References: <20090612155848.344611A6D9@nemo.deuxchevaux.org> <878wifcnvr.fsf@gismo.pca.it>
severity 535630 important
thanks
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 07:25:44PM +0200, Luca Capello wrote:
> severity 532900 important
Did the same on the openssh bug.
> On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:58:48 +0200, Axel Beckert wrote:
> > Since x11-common 1:7.4+2, the /usr/X11R6/bin symbolic link is no more
> > shipped with x11-common and therefore /usr/X11R6 is more present in
> > most Sid installations.
> [...]
> > This breaks X forwarding to Sid machines running dropbear as SSH
> > server, because the xauth location is hardcoded as to be at
> > /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth in dropbear's options.h.
>
> This breaks practically every Openmoko running the default Debian.
>
> Moreover, since X.Org in Debian moved away from /usr/X11R6 since etch
> (upstream changed with the transition to 7.0 [1]) and IIRC it was a
> Release Goal at that time, this should be at least severity important.
>
> The same bug applies to OpenSSH (and thus it should be cloned and
> reassigned), look at openssh-5.1p1 [2], look at pathnames.h:137:
I CC:ed the corresponding bug report.
OpenSSH maintainer, please compare with #532900.
Jens
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