Bug 1892

Summary: misleading hint in sshd_config
Product: Portable OpenSSH Reporter: Petr Cerny [:hrosik] <pcerny>
Component: DocumentationAssignee: Assigned to nobody <unassigned-bugs>
Status: CLOSED FIXED    
Severity: enhancement CC: dtucker
Priority: P2    
Version: 5.8p1   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 1845    
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Description Petr Cerny [:hrosik] 2011-04-15 23:11:38 AEST 
Created attachment 2031 [details]
default sshd_config patch

/etc/ssh/sshd_config:
"The strategy used for options in the default sshd_config shipped with OpenSSH is to specify options with their default value where possible, but leave them commented.  Uncommented options change a default value."

Strictly speaking, the values are not changed by uncommenting alone. It might be better to use something like "uncommenting overrides default values" (patch attached).

(original bugreport: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=687520)
Comment 1 Darren Tucker 2011-05-06 11:01:43 AEST 
Seems reasonable to me.  Applied, will be in 5.9.  Thanks.
Comment 2 Damien Miller 2011-09-06 15:33:06 AEST 
close resolved bugs now that openssh-5.9 has been released