Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 07:41:24 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Scott Mitchell <scott.mitchell@mail.com> Cc: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>, Christopher Schulte <schulte+freebsd@nospam.schulte.org>, Lord Raiden <raiden23@netzero.net>, Marco Radzinschi <marco@radzinschi.com>, FreeBDS-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Upcoming OpenSSH vulnerability (fwd) Message-ID: <20020626064124.GA53337@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <20020625232606.C381@fishballoon.dyndns.org> References: <5.1.1.6.2.20020624224948.02923518@pop3s.schulte.org> <20020624234646.G22328-100000@mail.radzinschi.com> <4.2.0.58.20020625134233.009992b0@pop.netzero.net> <5.1.1.6.2.20020625124040.041c50f0@pop3s.schulte.org> <20020625205840.B381@fishballoon.dyndns.org> <20020625205928.GA50230@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> <20020625232606.C381@fishballoon.dyndns.org>
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On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 11:26:06PM +0100, Scott Mitchell wrote:
> I see the openssh-portable port Makefile has a OPENSSH_OVERWRITE_BASE
> option. Presumably I can set that and NO_OPENSSH in make.conf to have the
> port replace the base ssh temporarily -- fewer things to undo when 3.4p1
> hits the base system. Any non-obvious disadvantages to that approach that
> I'm not seeing?
That sounds quite reasonable, but I don't really know of any gotchas
as I just installed the port under /usr/local and left the rest of the
system as it was. Your choice.
Matthew
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