[arch-dev-public] Urgent news item: sshd needs restarting after upgrading to openssh-8.2p1

[Gaetan Bisson]

[2020-02-16 20:03:16 -0500] Eli Schwartz via arch-dev-public:
> It's pretty plausible that this commit is simply incompatible with the
> previous version of sshd, therefore it could not reexec:
> https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/commit/c2bd7f74b0e0f3a3ee9d19ac549e6ba89013abaf
> 
> So this is "expected" behavior.

That seems likely indeed. What troubles me is that upstream has never
broken live SSH daemons in such a way before, maybe it was just pure
luck, but I had assumed this was a conscious design choice on their
part.

Cheers.

-- 
Gaetan
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