Announce: OpenSSH 6.9 released

Jakub Jelen jjelen at redhat.com
Wed Jul 1 17:47:53 AEST 2015


On 07/01/2015 05:39 AM, Damien Miller wrote:
> Future Deprecation Notice
> =========================
>
> The 7.0 release of OpenSSH, due for release in late July, will
> deprecate several features, some of which may affect compatibility
> or existing configurations. The intended changes are as follows:
>
>   * The default for the sshd_config(5) PermitRootLogin option will
>     change from "yes" to "no".
This was "reverted" from version control in shipped 6.9 source code, but 
not in shipped sshd_config, where is still
 > #PermitRootLogin no
and also manual page still contains
 > The default is “no”.

Not serious problem, but just saying, there is inconsistency.

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Jakub Jelen
Security Technologies
Red Hat



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