Re: [gentoo-user] ssh trouble

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday 28 October 2008 19:13:19 Allan Gottlieb wrote:
> At Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:58:16 +0200 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > On Tuesday 28 October 2008 18:46:11 Allan Gottlieb wrote:
> >> At Tue, 28 Oct 2008 09:26:07 -0700 Brian Wince <bwince@redback.com> 
wrote:
> >> >   -----Original Message-----
> >> >   From: Allan Gottlieb [mailto:gottlieb@nyu.edu]
> >> >   Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 9:09 AM
> >> >   To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> >> >   Subject: [gentoo-user] ssh trouble
> >> >
> >> >   Yesterday's update to ssh (openssh-5.1_p1-r1) is giving me trouble.
> >
> > I take it you did the obvious and restarted sshd after the upgrade?
>
> Yes.  Indeed it was the next day that I encountered the failure.
> Brian's fix was what I needed.  I must have changed the config last time
> and not left my usual
> # AJG:
> marker to alert me.  I should have noticed the change to X11Forwarding
> when I did etc-update, but unfortunately did not.

Yup, it's those pesky config files and the need to put stuff in them :-)

Config files really should be more intelligent and know to do what you want 
not what you say....



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