Package: dropbear Version: 0.52-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch 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. And according to the FHS no software should rely on the existence of /usr/X11R6: "In general, software must not be installed or managed via the above symbolic links."[1]
[1] http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/fhs/fhs-2.3.html#USRX11R6XWINDOWSYSTEMVERSION11REL) 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. The CHANGES file says something about compatibility issues with MacOS X and I can confirm that at least on MacOS X 10.4, xauth seems only to exist on that location. But since the dbclient doesn't seem to support X forwarding (at least not according to dbclient(1)), I suggest to adjust the xauth path in options.h since it should not affect the dropbear SSH client. The following patch (e.g. saved as dropbear-0.52/debian/diff/0003-options.h-fix-xauth-path.diff) fixes this: --- dropbear-0.52.orig/options.h 2008-11-11 15:13:50.000000000 +0100 +++ dropbear-0.52/options.h 2009-06-12 17:32:22.000000000 +0200 @@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ /* The command to invoke for xauth when using X11 forwarding. * "-q" for quiet */ #ifndef XAUTH_COMMAND -#define XAUTH_COMMAND "/usr/X11R6/bin/xauth -q" +#define XAUTH_COMMAND "/usr/bin/xauth -q" #endif /* if you want to enable running an sftp server (such as the one included with Works fine here. :-) JFTR: Setting XAuthLocation to /usr/bin/xauth on a connecting OpenSSH client doesn't help. (ssh_config(5) doesn't tell if the setting affects the local or remote path, so I'm not sure if it could have helped anyway.) -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'stable'), (400, 'oldstable'), (110, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages dropbear depends on: ii libc6 2.9-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-13 compression library - runtime dropbear recommends no packages. Versions of packages dropbear suggests: ii openssh-client 1:5.1p1-6 secure shell client, an rlogin/rsh pn runit <none> (no description available) ii udev 0.141-1 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
