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

[Chuck Swiger]

Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 02:39:14PM -0400, Jonathan Lennox wrote:
[ ... ]
 >> On FreeBSD 5.0 and later, wouldn't it be both simpler and safer to
 >> recommend
 >> # /etc/rc.d/sshd restart
 >> instead?

This can be dangerous if you are ssh'ed in, and the restart kills your 
connection rather than the daemon.

 > 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

This is good.

-- 
-Chuck