From owner-freebsd-security Sat Jul 6 22:11: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71F6D37B400 for ; Sat, 6 Jul 2002 22:10:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp018.mail.yahoo.com (smtp018.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.174.115]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CC1BF43E3B for ; Sat, 6 Jul 2002 22:10:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from anthonyrubin@yahoo.com) Received: from w184.z064001133.chi-il.dsl.cnc.net (HELO yahoo.com) (anthonyrubin@64.1.133.184 with plain) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 7 Jul 2002 05:10:58 -0000 Message-ID: <3D27CD60.8080906@yahoo.com> Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2002 00:10:56 -0500 From: Anthony Rubin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020529 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Barton Cc: Jason Stone , security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Default ssh protocol in -STABLE [was: HEADS UP: FreeBSD-STABLEnow has OpenSSH 3.4p1] References: <20020706204840.C2631-100000@walter> <3D27C9EA.6090207@yahoo.com> <3D27CC1F.DBD85584@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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