ANNOUNCE: openssh-1.2pre12

[Damien Miller]

openssh-1.2pre12 is available at http://violet.ibs.com.au/openssh/

Changes:

Merged many OpenBSD changes
Cleanup of askpass support
More solaris support
Shadow password support
Build fixes
RPM spec file fixes
RPM init script fixes

Detailed changelog:

19991115
 - Merged OpenBSD CVS changes:
   - [ssh-add.c] change passphrase loop logic and remove ref to 
     $DISPLAY, ok niels
 - Changed to ssh-add.c broke askpass support. Revised it to be a
little more
   modular. 
 - Revised autoconf support for enabling/disabling askpass support.
 - Merged more OpenBSD CVS changes:
        [auth-krb4.c]
          - disconnect if getpeername() fails
          - missing xfree(*client)
        [canohost.c]
          - disconnect if getpeername() fails
          - fix comment: we _do_ disconnect if ip-options are set
        [sshd.c]
          - disconnect if getpeername() fails
          - move checking of remote port to central place
        [auth-rhosts.c] move checking of remote port to central place
        [log-server.c] avoid extra fd per sshd, from millert@
        [readconf.c] print _all_ bad config-options in ssh(1), too
        [readconf.h] print _all_ bad config-options in ssh(1), too
        [ssh.c] print _all_ bad config-options in ssh(1), too
        [sshconnect.c] disconnect if getpeername() fails
 - OpenBSD's changes to sshd.c broke the PAM stuff, re-merged it.
 - Various small cleanups to bring diff (against OpenBSD) size down.
 - Merged more Solaris compability from Marc G. Fournier
   <marc.fournier at acadiau.ca>
 - Wrote autoconf tests for __progname symbol
 - RPM spec file fixes from Jim Knoble <jmknoble at pobox.com>

19991114
 - Solaris compilation fixes (still imcomplete)

19991113
 - Build patch from Niels Kristian Bech Jensen <nkbj at image.dk>
   - Don't install config files if they already exist
   - Fix inclusion of additional preprocessor directives from
acconfig.h
 - Removed redundant inclusions of config.h
 - Added 'Obsoletes' lines to RPM spec file
 - Merged OpenBSD CVS changes:
   - [bufaux.c] save a view malloc/memcpy/memset/free's, ok niels
   - [scp.c] fix overflow reported by damien at ibs.com.au: off_t 
     totalsize, ok niels,aaron
 - Delay fork (-f option) in ssh until after port forwarded
connections 
   have been initialised. Patch from Jani Hakala <jahakala at cc.jyu.fi>
 - Added shadow password patch from Thomas Neumann <tom at smart.ruhr.de>
 - Added ifdefs to auth-passwd.c to exclude it when PAM is enabled
 - Tidied default config file some more
 - Revised Redhat initscript to fix bug: sshd (re)start would fail
   if executed from inside a ssh login.


Regards,
Damien Miller