[sudo-users] manpage says that ssh-askpass is in /usr/X11R6/bin but it varies between systems

[Marc Haber]

On Mon, May 20, 2024 at 02:59:43PM +0200, Arkadiusz Drabczyk wrote:
> Just want to say that ssh-askpass doesn't live in /usr/X11R6/bin on
> most today's systems. There is /usr/X11R6/bin/ssh-askpass on OpenBSD
> 7.5 but on other systems it's in a different location:
> 
> On Debian it's in /usr/bin/ssh-askpass or /bin/ssh-askpass ->
> /etc/alternatives/ssh-askpass ->
> /usr/libexec/ssh-askpass/x11-ssh-askpass.

> I think
> package maintainers could patch the manpage and specify a correct path
> to ssh-askpass on the local system.

Thanks for spotting this. Debian will add a patch to docs and sudo.conf
template with the next version.

https://salsa.debian.org/sudo-team/sudo/-/commit/53c1de2a3f93eebb9a05319c06cff02a35317b22

Greetings
Marc

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