Call for testing: OpenSSH-5.4

Damien Miller djm at mindrot.org
Wed Mar 3 13:23:24 EST 2010


On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, Iain Morgan wrote:

> 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.

oops, fixed now:

http://anoncvs.mindrot.org/index.cgi/openssh/regress/cert-userkey.sh?revision=1.2&view=markup

Thanks for noticing

-d


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