- (dtucker) [regress/README.regress] Bug #989: Document limitation that scp

   is required in the system path for the multiplex test to work.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 4120ac33ffcf1891188117310e426e76bd5e6207..ccf6b0f111d3e3fbe5f6cd20de85fff6e33c6f9a 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -44,6 +44,8 @@
      Relocate check_ip_options call to prevent logging of garbage for
      connections with IP options set.  bz#1092 from David Leonard,
      "looks good" deraadt@
+ - (dtucker) [regress/README.regress] Bug #989: Document limitation that scp
+   is required in the system path for the multiplex test to work.
 
 20050930
  - (dtucker) [openbsd-compat/openbsd-compat.h] Bug #1096: Add prototype

diff --git a/regress/README.regress b/regress/README.regress
index 6934fa74dc206141a640ab9803badb8d664201fd..7f02383c94468f7184a9b5cc4b32b84b5c2b9f3f 100644 (file)
--- a/regress/README.regress
+++ b/regress/README.regress
@@ -97,6 +97,10 @@ Known Issues.
   unless ssh-rand-helper is in pre-installed (the path to
   ssh-rand-helper is hard coded).
 
+- Similarly, if you do not have "scp" in your system's $PATH then the
+  multiplex scp tests will fail (since the system's shell startup scripts
+  will determine where the shell started by sshd will look for scp).
+
 - Recent GNU coreutils deprecate "head -[n]": this will cause the yes-head
   test to fail.  The old behaviour can be restored by setting (and
   exporting) _POSIX2_VERSION=199209 before running the tests.