Call for testing: OpenSSH 9.7

[Predrag Zečević]

Hi all,

Not all systems have /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash.

Regards

On 2024-03-07 23:08:34, Job Snijders wrote:
> 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
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