On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 03:32:44PM -0500, Erik Dykema wrote: > I believe that I have found a bug / hole in the packaging related to > ssh2 / xauth.
ssh2 has been removed from Debian unstable, so there will be no further bug fixes to that package. You might mean the ssh package, though? > In order for X11 forwarding to work, sshd needs to run xauth, which is > included in the xbase-clients package, but is not a pre-req for ssh2, or > generally for x clients (sich as xemacs21). That's correct. X11 forwarding isn't a required feature of ssh, so there's no dependency. It's in the Suggests: field of ssh, though (although it doesn't seem to have been in ssh2's Suggests:). Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
