Tip: Upgrading the SSH Daemon

2001-12-28 Thread Shlomi Fish
Sagi Bashari and I came up with a way to upgrade SSH without a need for a physical access to the computer. I sucessfully managed to upgrade SSH this way. I'd like to share it here. What you do is compile and install another SSH version, and run sshd on a different port (say 29). Then, you login

Re: Tip: Upgrading the SSH Daemon

2001-12-28 Thread Yotam Rubin
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 11:49:36AM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: Sagi Bashari and I came up with a way to upgrade SSH without a need for a physical access to the computer. I sucessfully managed to upgrade SSH this way. I'd like to share it here. What you do is compile and install another SSH

Re: Tip: Upgrading the SSH Daemon

2001-12-28 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001, Shlomi Fish wrote about Tip: Upgrading the SSH Daemon: Sagi Bashari and I came up with a way to upgrade SSH without a need for a physical access to the computer. I sucessfully managed to upgrade SSH this way. I'd like to share it here. What you do is compile

Re: Tip: Upgrading the SSH Daemon

2001-12-28 Thread Uri Bruck
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Nadav Har'El wrote: SPOILER WARING I hope I'm not spoiling anyone's fun, but here's what I would have done: Send my packaged locked (with my lock). The receiver can't open this, but he can put another lock on the same place (I'm assuming it's a sort of hanging lock

Re: Tip: Upgrading the SSH Daemon

2001-12-28 Thread guy keren
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Yotam Rubin wrote: That's not necessary. sshd is forked for every incoming connection. It is possible to connect to ssh, shut down the listening process and the session will remain unharmed. Then you would go about installing sshd as normal,. there's no reason to run

Re: Tip: Upgrading the SSH Daemon

2001-12-28 Thread Yotam Rubin
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 01:33:39PM +0200, guy keren wrote: On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Yotam Rubin wrote: Don't CC me, I read all the lists I'm subscribed to. That's not necessary. sshd is forked for every incoming connection. It is possible to connect to ssh, shut down the listening process

Re: Tip: Upgrading the SSH Daemon

2001-12-28 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Yotam Rubin wrote: On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 01:33:39PM +0200, guy keren wrote: On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Yotam Rubin wrote: Don't CC me, I read all the lists I'm subscribed to. That's not necessary. sshd is forked for every incoming connection. It is possible to

Re: Tip: Upgrading the SSH Daemon

2001-12-28 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Nadav Har'El wrote: On Fri, Dec 28, 2001, Shlomi Fish wrote about Tip: Upgrading the SSH Daemon: This reminds me of a riddle: suppose you have a city where the thiefs that stroll the street steal every package unless it is locked. How is it possible for one person

Re: Tip: Upgrading the SSH Daemon

2001-12-28 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001, guy keren wrote about Re: Tip: Upgrading the SSH Daemon: that is necessary, since if your active connection(s) die (e.g. the box gets rebooted due to power outage, or something similar) during the process - you're _possibly_ locked out, in case your new install isn't

Re: Tip: Upgrading the SSH Daemon

2001-12-28 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Nadav Har'El wrote: shlomi's doing things the same way. you and nadav are doing things the careless way. you'll get there faster if it works, but shlomi has a smaller 'Tochelet' (how's that called in english), if you account for both successfull and unsuccesfull