Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2002 00:10:56 -0500 From: Anthony Rubin <anthonyrubin@yahoo.com> To: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Jason Stone <jason-fbsd-security@shalott.net>, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Default ssh protocol in -STABLE [was: HEADS UP: FreeBSD-STABLEnow has OpenSSH 3.4p1] Message-ID: <3D27CD60.8080906@yahoo.com> References: <20020706204840.C2631-100000@walter> <3D27C9EA.6090207@yahoo.com> <3D27CC1F.DBD85584@FreeBSD.org>
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In order for this change to affect a user they would have to run mergemaster, see the change, and tell mergemaster to go ahead and merge or overwrite their config file. Do people let mergemaster overwrite /etc/groups and such? Doug Barton wrote: > Anthony Rubin wrote: > >>Do people who depend on such things run mergemaster and blindly accept >>all changes? Does everyone throw every new -RELEASE into production >>without any testing? > > > You've missed the point. This would be an architectural change. We do > those between branches, not towards the end of life of a -stable branch. > > Those who want protocol 2 to be the default have a simple config change > to make... users expecting the RELENG_4 branch to actually be -stable > shouldn't have their expectations so violently disturbed. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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