4.6-R (Was: Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-03:18.openssl)

D J Hawkey Jr hawkeyd at visi.com
Mon Oct 6 09:19:10 PDT 2003


On Oct 06, at 10:02 AM, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:
> 
> > > Check the commit logs on RELENG_4 from that period.  The differences
> > > are due to normal development between the time 4.5-RELEASE and
> > > 4.6-RELEASE.
> 
> I didn't make the changes, so I'd have to look at the CVS history to
> answer specific questions myself.  However, in general we change the
> defaults to be `better' or `safer'.

Just a coda to this sub-thread: The SSH config file changes in SA-03:15
reflect the defaults as doc'd in the RELENG_4_5 man pages, though the
commented options in the default RELENG_4_5 config files do not match the
documented defaults.

L8r,
Dave

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