Re: Release notes
Hi. I have some corrections to "Special Considerations for SSH
Users" in the chapter on upgrading:
* I'm fairly certain potato already used the names "ssh-nonfree" and
"ssh" instead of "ssh" and "openssh," so people with "ssh" installed
shouldn't have major concerns.
* PermitRootLogin is back to "yes" by default.
* OTOH, people with ssh-nonfree installed will find that it has become
a dummy package depending on OpenSSH, as Debian no longer has much
use for non-free ssh. They should say "yes" (the default) to the
debconf question about generating new configuration files unless
they have a very good reason to keep their old configuration.
* ssh-socks is slated to get built from OpenSSH, but that might not
manage to happen in time for the release. If it does not, ssh-socks
users who do not need rhosts-style authentication should switch to
"ssh" in conjunction with socksify from dante-client or runsocks
from socks4-clients. (They will need to make sure to answer no to
the question about making /usr/bin/ssh setuid root; conveniently,
its description already mentions SOCKS, so that part shouldn't be
too hard to figure out.)
Note that the dummy ssh-nonfree package is currently in ftpmaster
wait, but ought to emerge before woody releases.
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Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org)
Finger amu@monk.mit.edu (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info.
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