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Date:      Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:04:25 +0300
From:      Kimmo Paasiala <kpaasial@gmail.com>
To:        Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz>
Cc:        freebsd-stable Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: sshd didn't run after upgrade to FreeBSD 8.4
Message-ID:  <CA%2B7WWScSS16URJNQ3h1WjoXaBhG_gBn=ERb_SiCc4y%2BDhBeuKA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <51C22E11.3020008@quip.cz>
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On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 1:17 AM, Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> wrote:
> The version of sshd in FreeBSD 8.4 is not backward compatible with older
> version from 8.3.
>
> OpenSSH_5.4p1 (on FreeBSD 8.3)
> OpenSSH_6.1p1 (on FreeBSD 8.4)
>
> # sshd -t
> /etc/ssh/sshd_config line 19: Missing argument.
>
> On line 19, there is:
> VersionAddendum
>
> It was OK in older versions. It will remove any default text appended to SSH
> protocol banner (for example 'FreeBSD-20120901').
>
> On FreeBSD 8.4, there must be some string (any single character)
>
> I was really badly surprised that the machine was re-booted without ssh
> access!
>
> I think this change is worth to mention in Release Notes
>
> Miroslav Lachman

How did you update to 8.4? This sounds more like messing up the
mergemaster(8)/freebsd-update merge procedure than a real problem with
the config file.

This is the source configuration file straight from SVN releng/8.4
branch and as you can see the VersionAddendum on line 115 is commented
out there:

http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/releng/8.4/crypto/openssh/sshd_config?view=markup

-Kimmo



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