[Trinux-news] Updated Packages

[Matthew F. <mf...@ci...>]

I finally got around to upgrading the SSH client & server packages to the
latest versin of the OpenSSH (2.9p2). The previous version as *not*
subject to some of the SSH security vulnerabilities discovered eariler
this year.

More importantly, I rewrote the startup scripts so that you can save the
contents of .ssh/ and /usr/local/etc/ssh* so the root and host keys do not
have to get regenerated each time.

So before you reboot, use the new /usr/local/bin/save-sshkeys script to
make sure the ssh_host keys in /usr/local/etc and your .ssh/identity[.pub]
(assuming you did an ssh-keygen) get tarred up and copied to the boot
floppy. That should get rid of the annoying security messages when SSHing
from and to trinux boxen.

I also upgraded the openssl package.

-mdf