Bug#495268: openssh-server: xauth should only be a Suggest
Maximilian Gaß <mxey@cloudconnected.org> writes:
> The openssh-server package recommends xauth. Policy defines Recommends
> as "used in all but unusual cases". IMHO X forwarding is not that common
> altogether, so I think it should only be a Suggest.
Hm, I use X forwarding constantly, as do many of my users, and the few
cases where we've installed an sshd without xauth accidentally have caused
a lot of confusion. It's definitely a feature that users around here, at
least, expect to have available and working.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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