Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 13:42:32 -0500 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org> To: Jonathan Lennox <lennox@cs.columbia.edu> Cc: security@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-03:12.openssh Message-ID: <20030917184232.GE6137@madman.celabo.org> In-Reply-To: <16232.43602.97364.411009@cnr.cs.columbia.edu> References: <200309161817.h8GIH1GL072348@freefall.freebsd.org> <5.0.2.1.1.20030916225106.02e09dc0@popserver.sfu.ca> <1063807011.15698.3.camel@gentoo1.enic.cc> <20030917140107.GD91843@madman.celabo.org> <16232.43602.97364.411009@cnr.cs.columbia.edu>
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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
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Jacques Vidrine . NTT/Verio SME . FreeBSD UNIX . Heimdal
nectar@celabo.org . jvidrine@verio.net . nectar@freebsd.org . nectar@kth.se
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