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
