Re: debian-ssh@lists.debian.org in /usr/share/openssh/sshd_config
On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 07:53:43PM +0100, foo fighter wrote:
> ChallengeResponseAuthentication is one of the few configuration
> parameters which are not uncommented in its default state. Is this
> intentionally or shoud the line be uncommented in order to have a
> consistent default config file of the openssh-server in debian?
It's like this deliberately because it's a deviation from the upstream
default. See sshd_config(5).
> As far as I remember the default settings where explicit in the config
> file in the past (1) and now all implicit (uncomented) (2). This makes
> a big change for users who do not often check their configgfiles when
> the default are changed upstream or package-maintainer. New default is
> (1) not effective / (2) is effective.
Yes, I'm aware it's a change, but it gets us much closer to upstream and
to a generally more sensible scheme for handling this configuration
file.
Thanks,
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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