Call for testing: OpenSSH 9.7

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On Fri, Mar 08, 2024 at 08:53:45AM +1100, Darren Tucker wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Mar 2024 at 06:59, Corinna Vinschen <vinschen at redhat.com> wrote:
> [...]
> > After a lot of tinkering I found that the following change in
> > dynamic-forward.sh suddenly made the test succeed.
> >
> >  In check_socks():
> >
> >     ${REAL_SSH} -q -F $OBJ/ssh_config \
> > -           -o "ProxyCommand ${proxycmd}${s} $h $PORT 2>/dev/null" \
> > +           -o "ProxyCommand ${proxycmd}${s} $h $PORT" \
> >             somehost cat ${DATA} > ${COPY}
> >
> > It occured to me that my login shell is tcsh, not bash.  So I changed
> > my login shell to bash and, lo and behold, dynamic-forward.sh succeeded
> > even with the stderr redirection.
> 
> Nice find!  Wow, tsch, I don't think I've used that in this millenium!

Yes, nice find.

> > Having said that, can this test be changed to be independent of the
> > user's long shell?
> 
> Yes we should be able to change to something that invokes
> ${TEST_SHELL} -c "[whatever]", although it might take a couple of
> attempts to get the quoting right.   Lemme have a try...

Wouldn't it be simpler to just use '#!/bin/sh' as the shebang line for
the dynamic-forward.sh script?

It seems it is a long-standing shortcoming of the C shell that there is
no simple way to redirect only stderr. The goal of that regression test
isn't specifically to test a multitude of shell implementations, right?

Kind regards,

Job