Call for testing: OpenSSH 9.7

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Mar  8 08:53, 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!

I'm running tcsh as login shell because I'm Cygwin maintainer for
tcsh.  It's a case of "eating your own dog food" :)

> > 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...

Thanks!
Corinna