sshd didn't run after upgrade to FreeBSD 8.4

[Steven Hartland]

Given its often critical nature ssh really should never fail due
to a bad config line, it should ignore and continue.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Miroslav Lachman" <000.fbsd at quip.cz>
To: "freebsd-stable Stable" <freebsd-stable at FreeBSD.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 11:17 PM
Subject: sshd didn't run after upgrade to FreeBSD 8.4


> The version of sshd in FreeBSD 8.4 is not backward compatible with older 
> version from 8.3.
> 
> OpenSSH_5.4p1 (on FreeBSD 8.3)
> OpenSSH_6.1p1 (on FreeBSD 8.4)
> 
> # sshd -t
> /etc/ssh/sshd_config line 19: Missing argument.
> 
> On line 19, there is:
> VersionAddendum
> 
> It was OK in older versions. It will remove any default text appended to 
> SSH protocol banner (for example 'FreeBSD-20120901').
> 
> On FreeBSD 8.4, there must be some string (any single character)
> 
> I was really badly surprised that the machine was re-booted without ssh 
> access!
> 
> I think this change is worth to mention in Release Notes
> 
> Miroslav Lachman
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