From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kutju-0004bx-2V for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:56:26 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 40203E02CE; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:56:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com (wf-out-1314.google.com [209.85.200.171]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12D5DE02CE for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:56:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 29so2800062wff.10 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:56:21 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=E4SbbVntGwkdk9B/ppgSG4CHMkkBhdJNfzBMAxah5nE=; b=KQVEP9qYwuh9BWRPVvnNi4gUlKi+cMouHk/7MoUy50Pdk2zJmBBmJQktp/4Ww+qAd1 udpvqq5VzGjuiC4X4rrRyjgtdJQSbNqMelE1PdU+xJHXzG55FBAyF9S6n3wVG7JnoRpJ 8fLS+oAtUv2IUsTg/auWEM9GpjeTdveMgu8fE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=iYvT32ov1/E7QVHswQnP5zjUZGvlM6DlTClbs1ANfuXIE7t9WDT3/qMCbqUvK7gzVu FIVVmtTYBoV3BtlFw0lBtGGRZrCucWZIlCRtd3pzF//klthxQCbXdomELJwf5pwS+nm1 p14QLN2BEmfdDSDJ+ckd72GQBEljfyx+XZOdM= Received: by 10.114.151.4 with SMTP id y4mr6468808wad.6.1225220181491; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:56:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.145.19 with HTTP; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:56:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:56:21 -0400 From: "Joshua Murphy" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ssh trouble In-Reply-To: <200810282040.15001.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200810281858.16493.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <200810282040.15001.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: f79008f6-3385-48e0-955e-2a7260254f52 X-Archives-Hash: ad88eda2e6a30c63595ede398498b714 On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 28 October 2008 19:13:19 Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> At Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:58:16 +0200 Alan McKinnon > wrote: >> > On Tuesday 28 October 2008 18:46:11 Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> >> At Tue, 28 Oct 2008 09:26:07 -0700 Brian Wince > 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.... They also should be almost completely unreadable and stored in one big conglomerated mass from everything on the system. Just like that *other* OS! (I can't ever seem to break out of my lurking on a serious note.) -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy