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Re: a few comments on the release notes



Frans Pop wrote:
> On Thursday 16 November 2006 01:02, peter green wrote:
> > 3: the restructuring of the ssh packages probablly deserves a mention in
> > the upgrading section, if i'm not mistaken then upgrading a system with
> > ssh installed but sshd disabled is likely to result in sshd enabled
> > which could pose a security issue if passwords are weak.
> 
> This seems not to be the case: an existing /etc/ssh/sshd_not_to_be_run 
> will still be honored.

Speaking of SSH, it may be worth mentioning in the release notes
that HashKnownHosts is set on by default in the etch version and
that this affects the way the known_hosts file looks like.

Regards,

	Joey

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