Re: bin/26861 (base ssh does not find ssh-askpass in /usr/pkg)

[Michael van Elst <mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/26861; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Michael van Elst <mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, 
dholland%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: bin/26861 (base ssh does not find ssh-askpass in /usr/pkg)
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 08:34:02 +0200

 On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 03:43:01AM +0000, dholland%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:
 > Synopsis: base ssh does not find ssh-askpass in /usr/pkg
 > 
 > State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
 > State-Changed-By: dholland%NetBSD.org@localhost
 > State-Changed-When: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 03:43:00 +0000
 > State-Changed-Why:
 > Is this still a problem?
 > (I just updated the synopsis from the discussion in the PR)
 
 The problem is the same, the solution (using SSH_ASKPASS) is the same.
 A similar problem exists for xauth where the solution is to configure
 the sshd accordingly for a pkgsrc based X11.
 
 I don't see how the problem could be solved without such manual
 configuration. ssh prefers to have a single hard coded default,
 a search path is probably considered a security issue.
 
 
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                                 Michael van Elst
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