Testing wanted: OpenSSH 4.8

[John Devitofranceschi]

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I made and regression tested openssh-SNAP-20080314 last night on
Mac OS X 10.5.2 (Leopard).  I installed plink and puttygen before
running the tests.

Everything checks out. No errors.

jd


Damien Miller wrote:
| Hi,
|
| We are preparing to make the release of OpenSSH 4.8 soon, so we would
| greatly appreciate testing of snapshot releases in as many environments
| and on as many operating systems as possible.
|
| The highlights of this release are:
|
|   * Added chroot(2) support for sshd(8), controlled by a new option
|     "ChrootDirectory". Please refer to sshd_config(5) for details, and
|     please use this feature carefully. (bz#177 bz#1352)
|   * Linked sftp-server(8) into sshd(8). The internal sftp server is
|     used when the command "internal-sftp" is specified in a Subsystem
|     or ForceCommand declaration. When used with ChrootDirectory, the
|     internal sftp server requires no special configuration of files
|     inside the chroot environment. Please refer to sshd_config(5) for
|     more information.
|   * Added a protocol extension method "posix-rename at openssh.com" for
|     sftp-server(8) to perform POSIX atomic rename() operations.
|     (bz#1400)
|   * Removed the fixed limit of 100 file handles in sftp-server(8). The
|     server will now dynamically allocate handles up to the number of
|     available file descriptors. (bz#1397)
|   * ssh(8) will now skip generation of SSH protocol 1 ephemeral server
|     keys when in inetd mode and protocol 2 connections are negotiated.
|     This speeds up protocol 2 connections to inetd-mode servers that
|     also allow Protocol 1 (bz#440)
|   * Accept the PermitRootLogin directive in a sshd_config(5) Match
|     block. Allows for, e.g. permitting root only from the local
|     network.
|   * Reworked sftp(1) argument splitting and escaping to be more
|     internally consistent (i.e. between sftp commands) and more
|     consistent with sh(1). Please note that this will change the
|     interpretation of some quoted strings, especially those with
|     embedded backslash escape sequences. (bz#778)
|   * Support "Banner=none" in sshd_config(5) to disable sending of a
|     pre-login banner (e.g. in a Match block).
|   * ssh(1) ProxyCommands are now executed with $SHELL rather than
|     /bin/sh.
|   * ssh(1)'s ConnectTimeout option is now applied to both the TCP
|     connection and the SSH banner exchange (previously it just covered
|     the TCP connection). This allows callers of ssh(1) to better detect
|     and deal with stuck servers that accept a TCP connection but don't
|     progress the protocol, and also makes ConnectTimeout useful for
|     connections via a ProxyCommand.
|   * Many new regression tests, including interop tests against PuTTY's
|     plink.
|   * Support BSM auditing on Mac OS X
|
| This release also contains many bugfixes. Please refer to the tracking bug
| https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1353 for a partial list.
| The ChangeLog file in the portable OpenSSH tarballs contains a full list.
|
| Please fetch and test the release that is appropriate for your platform:
|
| If you are running OpenBSD the latest version is available in CVS HEAD,
| as described at http://www.openbsd.org/anoncvs.html
|
| Otherwise, portable snapshots are available from
| http://www.mindrot.org/openssh_snap/ and also by anonymous CVS. CVS
| instructions are here: http://www.openssh.com/portable.html#cvs
|
| Running the regression tests supplied with Portable does not require
| installation and is a simply:
|
| $ ./configure && make tests
|
| This release includes some interoperability tests against PuTTY's
| plink(1). These tests may be run using "make interop-tests" if you
| have plink(1) installed.
|
| Testing on suitable non-production systems is also appreciated.
| Please send reports of success or failure to
| openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org.
|
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