[gentoo-user] New openssh install message?

[Mark Knecht]

Hi,
   I don't remember seeing this message on previous openssh updates:

 Installing (1 of 1) net-misc/openssh-5.3_p1-r1
 *  SetUID: [chmod go-r] /usr/lib64/misc/ssh-keysign ...
  [ ok ]
 * Remember to merge your config files in /etc/ssh/ and then
 * reload sshd: '/etc/init.d/sshd reload'.

   Is this a new message or have I just missed in the past? I don't
know anywhere else for ssh configuration files to exist except
/etc/ssh and I normally just do

/etc/init.d/sshd restart

anytime it gets updated.

   Has anything changed about this? I'm updating a remote machine and
don't want to lose connectivity.

Thanks,
Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] New openssh install message?

[Mike Edenfield]

On 3/12/2010 2:07 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
 Hi,
I don't remember seeing this message on previous openssh updates:
 
 Installing (1 of 1) net-misc/openssh-5.3_p1-r1
  *  SetUID: [chmod go-r] /usr/lib64/misc/ssh-keysign ...
   [ ok ]
  * Remember to merge your config files in /etc/ssh/ and then
  * reload sshd: '/etc/init.d/sshd reload'.
 
Is this a new message or have I just missed in the past? I don't
 know anywhere else for ssh configuration files to exist except
 /etc/ssh and I normally just do

The message isn't new; every version of openssh in portage includes it
as part of the post-install.

As far as I can determine, it's just a reminder to restart ssh after
merging your config changes e.g. with conf-update or whatever you use,
so you can take advantage of whatever security bugfixes were present in
the new version.

--Mike