Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Thu, 04 Jul 2002 12:18:04 -0500
From:      Christopher Schulte <schulte+freebsd@nospam.schulte.org>
To:        hawkeyd@visi.com, stable at FreeBSD <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: FreeBSD-STABLE now has OpenSSH 3.4p1
Message-ID:  <5.1.1.6.2.20020704120834.0412d678@pop3s.schulte.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020704115910.A89342@sheol.localdomain>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
At 11:59 AM 7/4/2002 -0500, D J Hawkey Jr wrote:
>Once the dust has settled, will the recent changes in 4.6-STABLE be MFC'd
>to 4.6-RELEASE:
>
>   - OpenSSH 3.4p1

I don't think so.

http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=155733+0+current/freebsd-security 
:

 >At this time, OpenSSH 3.4 will not be merged into the security
 >branches.  They are currently not vulnerable, and major upgrades are
 >outside the scope of the security branches, particularly when such
 >upgrades are practically guaranteed to break existing installations.
 >
 >Of course, OpenSSH 3.4 is always available via the Ports Collection,
 >and I would, in fact, recommend that users take advantage of it and
 >turn on PrivilegeSeperation if at all possible.
 >
 >Cheers,
 >--
 >Jacques A. Vidrine <n@nectar.cc>                 http://www.nectar.cc/
 >NTT/Verio SME          .     FreeBSD UNIX     .       Heimdal Kerberos
 >jvidrine@verio.net     .  nectar@FreeBSD.org  .          nectar@kth.se

His advice of port installation is a good solution if you want to use 
privsep on a RELEASE build.

>Thanks,
>Dave
>
>--
>   ______________________                         ______________________
>   \__________________   \    D. J. HAWKEY JR.   /   __________________/
>      \________________/\     hawkeyd@visi.com    /\________________/
>                       http://www.visi.com/~hawkeyd/

--
Christopher Schulte
http://www.schulte.org/
Do not un-munge my @nospam.schulte.org
email address.  This address is valid.


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?5.1.1.6.2.20020704120834.0412d678>