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From: Patrick McLean <chutzpah@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] News item: OpenSSH 8.2_p1 running sshd breakage
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 20:02:58
Message-Id: 20200219120251.0600e453@patrickm.gaikai.org
1 Title: OpenSSH 8.2_p1 running sshd breakage
2 Author: Patrick McLean <chutzpah@g.o>
3 Posted: 2020-02-21
4 Revision: 1
5 News-Item-Format: 2.0
6 Display-If-Installed: <net-misc/openssh-8.2
7
8 If sshd is running, and a system is upgraded from <net-misc/openssh-8.2_p1
9 to >=net-misc/openssh-8.2_p1, any new ssh connection will fail until sshd is
10 restarted.
11
12 Before restarting sshd, it is *strongly* recommended that you test your
13 configuraton with the following command (as root):
14 sshd -t
15
16 If your system is booted with openrc, use this command (as root)
17 to restart sshd:
18 /etc/init.d/sshd restart
19
20 If your system is booted with systemd, use this command (as root)
21 to restart sshd:
22 systemctl restart sshd
23
24 WARNING: On systemd booted machines, this command will terminate all currently
25 open ssh connections, it is *strongly* reccommended that you validate
26 your configuration before restarting sshd.

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