In message <861s681ypd....@next.des.no>, =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rg
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> Cy Schubert <cy.schub...@cschubert.com> writes:
> > Add it to ssh_config or sshd_config if one must but have VMware fix 
> > their bugs. Putting workarounds in our O/S to work around a bug in some 
> > other vendor's virtualization is something I don't support.
>
> It's something we do *all the time*.  Otherwise we'd just be a toy OS
> that hobbyists played with in the weekends on an old spare machine they
> keep in a basement closet.

Hmmm. I guess Red Hat Enterprise Linux must be a toy OS then.

>
> > If we must 
> > add the #ifdefs to our ssh, then add an UPDATING entry to say that to 
> > enable it put VMWARE_GUEST_WORKAROUND or however we choose to enable it 
> > in src.conf.
>
> Then it's useless.

No. We do like Red Hat does. Advise the customer to use a workaround 
until the other vendor fixes their code.


-- 
Cheers,
Cy Schubert <cy.schub...@cschubert.com>
FreeBSD UNIX:  <c...@freebsd.org>   Web:  http://www.FreeBSD.org

        The need of the many outweighs the greed of the few.


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