FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-03:12.openssh

[Jacques A. Vidrine]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 02:39:14PM -0400, Jonathan Lennox wrote:
> Jacques A. Vidrine writes:
> > On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 06:56:51AM -0700, Mark Foster wrote:
> > > Also, the command as shown doesn't work under csh, you must run under sh
> 
> > Good point.  I've always assumed use of the real shell :-) for
> > security advisories, but that is not a good assumption, particularly
> > since by default the root user has csh.
> 
> On FreeBSD 5.0 and later, wouldn't it be both simpler and safer to
> recommend
> # /etc/rc.d/sshd restart
> instead?

Then there would be two sets of instructions, which sucks.

I think we'll just not do it quite completely and go with

    # kill `cat /var/run/sshd.pid`
    # /usr/sbin/sshd

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Jacques Vidrine   . NTT/Verio SME      . FreeBSD UNIX       . Heimdal
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