On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 11:19:26AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > What is the rationale for changing the default setting?
It's very likely to become the upstream default soon enough; they are merely waiting on more testing. Since this is unstable, I decided it was as good a time as any to provide some of that testing, since the feature seemed solid enough to me. > I find it very annoying, and from a brief discussion on #debian-devel I > see that I'm not alone. I'll need a much better reason than that to be persuaded to disable it again. While I realise that it's quite a soft security measure and that all it does is slow down attack vectors somewhat, it does manage that, and userspace tools to manage known_hosts are now provided (and, frankly, I'd rather people used those than that they went in and edited known_hosts by hand anyway; the latter used to cause problems when people accidentally inserted line breaks or whatever). > (BTW, would you mind fixing #284874? It's six months old and should be > trivial...) Sorry I haven't got round to this yet. The reason I haven't done it is that it should be added to both /usr/share/doc/openssh-client/ and /usr/share/doc/openssh-server/, which led me to decide that the documentation directories should be symlinked together; unfortunately, when I tried to do this I ran into some complicated upgrade issues that I couldn't resolve at the time, involving some of the documentation directories going missing entirely in some cases. I'll give it another try soon. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
