Call for testing: OpenSSH 9.7

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Mar  7 22:08, 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's not a problem of running dynamic-forward.sh.  it's running the ssh
call of ProxyCommand which depends on the user's login shell.


Corinna