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Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 07:41:24 +0100
From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
To: Scott Mitchell <scott.mitchell@mail.com>
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Subject: Re: Upcoming OpenSSH vulnerability (fwd)
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On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 11:26:06PM +0100, Scott Mitchell wrote:

> I see the openssh-portable port Makefile has a OPENSSH_OVERWRITE_BASE
> option.  Presumably I can set that and NO_OPENSSH in make.conf to have the
> port replace the base ssh temporarily -- fewer things to undo when 3.4p1
> hits the base system.  Any non-obvious disadvantages to that approach that
> I'm not seeing?

That sounds quite reasonable, but I don't really know of any gotchas
as I just installed the port under /usr/local and left the rest of the
system as it was.  Your choice.

	Matthew

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