Re: BUG: rssh 2.3.3

[Nico Kadel-G. <nk...@gm...>]

On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 3:12 PM, Derek Martin <co...@pi...> wrote:
> Hi Noel,
>
> On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 12:39:08PM +1000, Noel Butler wrote:
>> Last night I updated two machines that use rssh.
>>
>> make install, on both boxes, over-wrote the existing customised
>> rssh.conf files
>
> Yep, confirmed, it does that.  But it always did, unless autoconf
> dealt with it.  I believe if you install it using your system's
> package manager, it will not do that.  I recommend doing that... most
> major distributions now have rssh in their package repositories.

RPM preserves the old rssh.conf file.


> That said, it's annoying behavior.  However it's not a security bug,
> and I'm not really fixing anything else at this point.  I'll flag this
> though so that if I ever do need to release a new version, I'll fix
> this too.
>
> The good news is 2.3.3 is a year and a half old, and it seems pretty
> unlikely at this point that I'll release another version, so you'll
> probably never have to  worry about this ever again.  If you need to
> update other systems, just save your config file aside first.
>
>
> Thanks
>
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