Announce: OpenSSH 7.2 released

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Mar  4 13:41, Andreas M. Kirchwitz wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen <vinschen at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > There's a backward incompatible change in this release which is not
> > mentioned in the release notes.  The slogin symlink as well as the
> > slogin.1 man page are not created anymore by the Makefile.
> >
> > This change potentially breaks lots and lots of aliases, shell scripts,
> > and GUI keyboard shortcuts.
> 
> This may also be a serious security issue!
> [...]
> (IMHO, there should be a dummy script for "slogin" that
> warns users that they no longer get what they expect;
> it's better to break things instead of silently compromising
> security.)

Please, no.  Removing the script so the downstream distros can
provide it by themselves is ok, but providing a broken script
is worse, IMHO.


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer
Red Hat
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