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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: Patrick McLean <chutzpah@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC v2] News item: OpenSSH 8.2_p1 running sshd breakage
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 06:46:46
Message-Id: w6gwo8hzrg4.fsf@kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] [RFC v2] News item: OpenSSH 8.2_p1 running sshd breakage by Patrick McLean
1 >>>>> On Wed, 19 Feb 2020, Patrick McLean wrote:
2
3 > If sshd is running, and a system is upgraded from <net-misc/openssh-8.2_p1
4 > to >=net-misc/openssh-8.2_p1, any new ssh connection will fail until sshd is
5 > restarted.
6
7 The ebuild currently has this warning:
8 ewarn "After upgrading to openssh-8.2p1 please restart sshd, otherwise you"
9 ewarn "will not be able to establish new sessions. Restarting sshd over a ssh"
10 ewarn "connection is generally safe."
11
12 Which IMHO is clearer than the introductory paragraph above.
13 Especially, I would suggest the last sentence to be included in the news
14 item.