From: Daniel Stenberg Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2023 05:56:56 +0000 (+0200) Subject: tests/README: SOCKS tests are not using OpenSSH, it has its own server X-Git-Tag: curl-8_5_0~201 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=29e198bc71a8da3ace3d0b425173a7eb77509b65;p=thirdparty%2Fcurl.git tests/README: SOCKS tests are not using OpenSSH, it has its own server Follow-up to 04fd67555cc Closes #12195 --- diff --git a/tests/README.md b/tests/README.md index 6f027bddeb..1464eacdc2 100644 --- a/tests/README.md +++ b/tests/README.md @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ SPDX-License-Identifier: curl - python-impacket (for SMB tests) - diff (when a test fails, a diff is shown) - stunnel (for HTTPS and FTPS tests) - - OpenSSH or SunSSH (for SCP, SFTP and SOCKS4/5 tests) + - OpenSSH or SunSSH (for SCP and SFTP tests) - nghttpx (for HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 tests) - nroff (for --manual tests) - An available `en_US.UTF-8` locale @@ -94,9 +94,7 @@ SPDX-License-Identifier: curl The test suite runs stand-alone servers on random ports to which it makes requests. For SSL tests, it runs stunnel to handle encryption to the regular - servers. For SSH, it runs a standard OpenSSH server. For SOCKS4/5 tests SSH - is used to perform the SOCKS functionality and requires a SSH client and - server. + servers. For SSH, it runs a standard OpenSSH server. The listen port numbers for the test servers are picked randomly to allow users to run multiple test cases concurrently and to not collide with other @@ -112,7 +110,7 @@ SPDX-License-Identifier: curl ### Shell startup scripts - Tests which use the ssh test server, SCP/SFTP/SOCKS tests, might be badly + Tests which use the ssh test server, SCP/SFTP tests, might be badly influenced by the output of system wide or user specific shell startup scripts, .bashrc, .profile, /etc/csh.cshrc, .login, /etc/bashrc, etc. which output text messages or escape sequences on user login. When these shell