Call for testing: OpenSSH-5.4

[Iain Morgan]

On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 18:45:06 -0600, Damien Miller wrote:
> Thanks for the detailed test results! Darren fixed a portability bug in
> the test scripts on the weekend. Could you take a quick look at the start
> of regress/cert-hostkey.sh to see if it uses "echo -n" or "echon" in this
> block:
> 
> # Create a CA key and add it to known hosts
> ${SSHKEYGEN} -q -N '' -t rsa  -f $OBJ/host_ca_key ||\
>         fail "ssh-keygen of host_ca_key failed"
> (
>         echon '@cert-authority '
>         echon "$HOSTS "
>         cat $OBJ/host_ca_key.pub
> ) > $OBJ/known_hosts-cert
> 
> If it uses "echo -n" then you are using the version with the portability
> bug which will cause these tests to fail unexpectedly.
> 

The version of cert-hostkey.sh that I have been using (from the 20100302
snapshot) uses "echon" rather than "echo -n." However, I should note
that cert-userkey.sh still uses "echo -n", even in CVS.

-- 
Iain Morgan