* [gentoo-dev] Bug #733802, USE 'scp' now defaults to off in net-misc/openssh
@ 2020-07-25 23:40 Joshua Kinard
2020-07-26 0:05 ` Rich Freeman
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From: Joshua Kinard @ 2020-07-25 23:40 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
So I stumbled into Bug #733802, which now defaults the 'scp' USE flag to off
in net-misc/openssh. This seems like something that needs a news entry, or
at least a "heads up" on the mailing list? Potential for some scripts to
break if scp suddenly goes missing after an openssh update.
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* Re: [gentoo-dev] Bug #733802, USE 'scp' now defaults to off in net-misc/openssh
2020-07-25 23:40 [gentoo-dev] Bug #733802, USE 'scp' now defaults to off in net-misc/openssh Joshua Kinard
@ 2020-07-26 0:05 ` Rich Freeman
2020-07-26 0:14 ` John Helmert III
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From: Rich Freeman @ 2020-07-26 0:05 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 7:40 PM Joshua Kinard <kumba@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> This seems like something that needs a news entry, or
> at least a "heads up" on the mailing list?
Definitely not a "heads up" on the mailing list - that is not an
appropriate way to communicate anything to users - not even devs are
required to read this list.
The two appropriate ways to communicate something like this are
einfo/ewarn/etc or news. Never hurts to use news. Ideally I'd point
to a substitute, and I'd suggest one myself if I were aware of one...
--
Rich
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2020-07-26 0:05 ` Rich Freeman
@ 2020-07-26 0:14 ` John Helmert III
2020-07-26 8:30 ` Toralf Förster
2020-07-26 9:57 ` Ulrich Mueller
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From: John Helmert III @ 2020-07-26 0:14 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
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On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 08:05:14PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 7:40 PM Joshua Kinard <kumba@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >
> > This seems like something that needs a news entry, or
> > at least a "heads up" on the mailing list?
>
> Definitely not a "heads up" on the mailing list - that is not an
> appropriate way to communicate anything to users - not even devs are
> required to read this list.
>
> The two appropriate ways to communicate something like this are
> einfo/ewarn/etc or news. Never hurts to use news. Ideally I'd point
> to a substitute, and I'd suggest one myself if I were aware of one...
Just to have this information here for easy access, this is upstream's
response from that bug's URL [1]. They recommend "rsync or something else":
The scp command is a historical protocol (called rcp) which relies
upon that style of argument passing and encounters expansion
problems. It has proven very difficult to add "security" to the scp
model. All attempts to "detect" and "prevent" anomalous argument
transfers stand a great chance of breaking existing workflows. Yes,
we recognize it the situation sucks. But we don't want to break the
easy patterns people use scp for, until there is a commonplace
replacement. People should use rsync or something else instead if
they are concerned.
[1] https://github.com/cpandya2909/CVE-2020-15778/
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2020-07-26 0:05 ` Rich Freeman
2020-07-26 0:14 ` John Helmert III
@ 2020-07-26 8:30 ` Toralf Förster
2020-07-26 9:57 ` Ulrich Mueller
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From: Toralf Förster @ 2020-07-26 8:30 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
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On 7/26/20 2:05 AM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> The two appropriate ways to communicate something like this are
> einfo/ewarn/etc or news. Never hurts to use news. Ideally I'd point
> to a substitute, and I'd suggest one myself if I were aware of one...
ewarn please, einfo is too weak
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Toralf
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* Re: [gentoo-dev] Bug #733802, USE 'scp' now defaults to off in net-misc/openssh
2020-07-26 0:05 ` Rich Freeman
2020-07-26 0:14 ` John Helmert III
2020-07-26 8:30 ` Toralf Förster
@ 2020-07-26 9:57 ` Ulrich Mueller
2020-07-27 7:22 ` Joonas Niilola
2 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Ulrich Mueller @ 2020-07-26 9:57 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Rich Freeman; +Cc: gentoo-dev
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>>>>> On Sun, 26 Jul 2020, Rich Freeman wrote:
> Definitely not a "heads up" on the mailing list - that is not an
> appropriate way to communicate anything to users - not even devs are
> required to read this list.
> The two appropriate ways to communicate something like this are
> einfo/ewarn/etc or news. Never hurts to use news. Ideally I'd point
> to a substitute, and I'd suggest one myself if I were aware of one...
Even more appropriate would be to enable the flag with an IUSE default.
The ebuild could still display an ewarn message pointing out the alleged
security issue.
Ulrich
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