diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index bb0d47bc6..cb6000c29 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
  - (stevesk) for HP-UX 11.X use X/Open socket interface;
     pulls in modern socket prototypes and eliminates a number of compiler
     warnings.  see xopen_networking(7).
+ - (stevesk) fix x11 forwarding from _PATH_XAUTH change
 
 20010625
  - OpenBSD CVS Sync
@@ -5807,4 +5808,4 @@
  - Wrote replacements for strlcpy and mkdtemp
  - Released 1.0pre1
 
-$Id: ChangeLog,v 1.1332 2001/06/27 16:32:24 stevesk Exp $
+$Id: ChangeLog,v 1.1333 2001/06/28 00:13:48 stevesk Exp $
diff --git a/defines.h b/defines.h
index 8a3d08c98..1aaebc528 100644
--- a/defines.h
+++ b/defines.h
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #ifndef _DEFINES_H
 #define _DEFINES_H
 
-/* $Id: defines.h,v 1.66 2001/06/10 17:35:46 mouring Exp $ */
+/* $Id: defines.h,v 1.67 2001/06/28 00:13:48 stevesk Exp $ */
 
 /* Some platforms need this for the _r() functions */
 #if !defined(_REENTRANT) && !defined(SNI)
@@ -335,8 +335,8 @@ struct winsize {
 #endif
 
 /* Define this to be the path of the xauth program. */
-#ifndef XAUTH_PATH
-#define XAUTH_PATH "/usr/X11R6/bin/xauth"
+#ifdef XAUTH_PATH
+#define _PATH_XAUTH XAUTH_PATH
 #endif /* XAUTH_PATH */
 
 #ifndef _PATH_TTY
diff --git a/pathnames.h b/pathnames.h
index 54c2c1319..0470a2159 100644
--- a/pathnames.h
+++ b/pathnames.h
@@ -118,6 +118,11 @@
 #define _PATH_SSH_ASKPASS_DEFAULT	"/usr/X11R6/bin/ssh-askpass"
 #endif
 
+/* xauth for X11 forwarding */
+#ifndef _PATH_XAUTH
+#define _PATH_XAUTH			"/usr/X11R6/bin/xauth"
+#endif
+
 /* for scp */
 #ifndef _PATH_CP
 #define _PATH_CP			"cp"
@@ -154,4 +159,3 @@
 #ifndef SSH_PRNG_COMMAND_FILE
 # define SSH_PRNG_COMMAND_FILE   ETCDIR "/ssh_prng_cmds"
 #endif /* SSH_PRNG_COMMAND_FILE */
-