I broke my SSH to jails after 7.2-8.0 src upgrade

Xin LI delphij at delphij.net
Fri Mar 12 04:41:42 UTC 2010


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On 2010/03/11 20:33, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> I've done a few RELENG_8_0 to STABLE-8 to 9-CURRENT upgrades lately
> and mergemaster was goofing up the contents a bit based on the RCS
> versions. I had to hand-edit a crapload of stuff going from 8 to 9,
> and I still don't trust mergemaster's automatic merging logic because
> it goofs up on /etc/group // /etc/passwd still (doesn't merge
> anything, discards my info, etc) for starters.
> 
> -a doesn't actually do any merging though, FWIW:
> 
>      -a          Run automatically.  This option will leave all the files that
>                  differ from the installed versions in the temporary directory
>                  to be dealt with by hand.  If the temproot directory exists,
>                  it creates a new one in a previously non-existent directory.
>                  This option unsets the verbose flag, but other than -U it is
>                  compatible with all other options.  Setting -a makes -w
>                  superfluous.
> 
> Also, "add path pts unhide" unmasks all psuedo TTY dev nodes so that
> applications that use openpty(3) and friends (like sshd) can allocate
> them at login.

Yes that's right.  Thanks for posting, perhaps we can document it in FAQ?

Cheers,
- -- 
Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net>	http://www.delphij.net/
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