problems compiling on Irix

[Andrew Daviel]

I think I have resolved my problem, but having typed most of this
I might as well send it.

I have OpenSSH_2.5.1p2 which I am trying to build on Irix 5


In Irix /usr/include/paths.h _PATH_ROOTPATH and
_PATH_USERPATH  are defined.
defines.h looks for USER_PATH and _PATH_STDPATH and misses this, so
that sshd does not include the path for X11 when users login. I copied a
chunk of ifdef viz.

#ifdef _PATH_USERPATH
# ifdef _PATH_STDPATH
#  undef _PATH_STDPATH
# endif
# define _PATH_STDPATH _PATH_USERPATH
#endif


Having fixed that, I was having problems with X forwarding

I was seeing (with ssh2)
warning: X11 connection requests different authentication protocol:
'MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1' vs. ''.

but it's not XAUTHORITY  getting clobbered as was discussed last year.

Aha, aha. I see
   Running /sbin/sh /etc/ssh/sshrc
instead of
   Running /usr/bin/X11/xauth add mylocal:12.0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1

In an earlier effort to resolve the PATH problem mentioned earlier,
another developer had created /etc/ssh/sshrc in order to try
setting the path, but had not executed xauth in it. So if I just delete
that file things should be OK, I hope.



-- 
Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada
Tel. +1 (604) 222-7376
security at triumf.ca