Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-03:12.openssh

From: Jacques A. Vidrine (nectar_at_FreeBSD.org)
Date: 09/17/03

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    Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 13:42:32 -0500
To: Jonathan Lennox <lennox@cs.columbia.edu>

    On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 02:39:14PM -0400, Jonathan Lennox wrote:
    > Jacques A. Vidrine writes:
    > > On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 06:56:51AM -0700, Mark Foster wrote:
    > > > Also, the command as shown doesn't work under csh, you must run under sh
    >
    > > Good point. I've always assumed use of the real shell :-) for
    > > security advisories, but that is not a good assumption, particularly
    > > since by default the root user has csh.
    >
    > On FreeBSD 5.0 and later, wouldn't it be both simpler and safer to
    > recommend
    > # /etc/rc.d/sshd restart
    > instead?

    Then there would be two sets of instructions, which sucks.

    I think we'll just not do it quite completely and go with

        # kill `cat /var/run/sshd.pid`
        # /usr/sbin/sshd 

    -- 
Jacques Vidrine   . NTT/Verio SME      . FreeBSD UNIX       . Heimdal
nectar@celabo.org . jvidrine@verio.net . nectar@freebsd.org . nectar@kth.se
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