On Wed Sep 24, 2003 at 02:12:33PM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote:

> > >    Just so that I can verify,  The recent rpms you put out for 9.1 and
> > > 9.0 on openssh.  Did those have the first or second round of patches. 
> > > Seems that on the openssh export (meaning non openBSD) they made an
> > > error with the PAM config that is as bad as the hole the patch fixed. I
> > > don't mean to push.  Just need to be able to answer questions and I'm
> > > not sure of the right answer.  
> > 
> > We have the two sets of patches the openssh team provided.  The pam problems
> > they introduced in 3.7 are not in our packages; the patches didn't touch pam
> > stuff in this way.  *Only* 3.7 and 3.7.1 are vulnerable to the pam problem
> > that was announced yesterday (the day before? can't remember).
> > 
> > Long and short of it is, our packages are fine.
> > 
> > Chalk one up, again, to not putting out 3.7 when people were adamant it
> > needed to be done.
> 
> I hope you understand I'm not questioning your methods (they've done me
> well so far.)  I'm simply working on the answer to the PAM problem.  It
> seemed to me that as you said it didn't affect MDK.  But, I was asked to
> ask. So I did, and got an answer with better words than I could create. 
> Thanks.

You're welcome, and I knew you weren't questioning.  It was more for the
benefit of others who had insisted 3.7 be put into updates and to whom I had
to explain countless times why I wouldn't.  Hopefully they understand now.

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