Upgrading sshd?

Jan Grant Jan.Grant at bristol.ac.uk
Tue Sep 16 11:54:12 PDT 2003


On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Johan Paul wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Refering to the latest sshd vurnability
> (http://slashdot.org/articles/03/09/16/1327248.shtml?tid=126&tid=172) I
> was thinking of upgradeing my sshd as well. So I cvsup'ed my system
> (FBSD 4.8) and there seems to be a updated file for sshd. But how do I
> upgrade sshd safly since when I type 'pkg_info |grep ssh' it return no
> packages. I guess sshd is included somehow by the default install (??)
> but how can I now upgrade it? I was thinking of portupgrade, but it
> needs a package to upgrade...
>
> Thanks!

cd /usr/src/secure/usr.sbin/sshd; make; make install

Then restart it.

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