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Date:      Thu, 11 Jul 2002 06:24:47 -0500
From:      Scott Robbins <scottro@nyc.rr.com>
To:        Daniel Bye <dan@slightlystrange.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ssh upgrade
Message-ID:  <20020711112447.GB4523@scott1.homeunix.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020711091250.GA5301@catflap.home.slightlystrange.or>
References:  <001001c2288a$51cf4050$0301a8c0@FDORRE> <20020711091250.GA5301@catflap.home.slightlystrange.or>

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On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 10:12:50AM +0100, Daniel Bye wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 11:23:25PM -0400, frederic wrote:
> > Hi, 
> > 
> > I want to upgrade my version of ssh, what is the best way to do that. Whenever I tried it in the past the tar ball installed successfully but whenever I type ssh -V the old version number still shows up. I am sure I have to rename something but  I am not sure what and where :-)
> > 
> 
> 
> Note also that if you want to run the upgraded sshd, you need to set
> sshd_program in /etc/rc.conf to point to the location of the new 
> binary:
> 
>   sshd_program="/usr/local/sbin/sshd"


Actually, although the pkg-message says that, you can skip it. :)
(found this out by accident.)  :)  As long as you rename the
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/sshd.sh.sample to to sshd.sh and either turn off
sshd in /etc/rc.conf or remove it entirely, the new version will start
up on boot.  

HTH

Scott


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