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Bug#780797: openssh-server: modifies the user configuration



On Sat, 2015-03-21 at 07:12 +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> On Sat, 2015-03-21 at 00:51 -0400, Chris Knadle wrote:
> >     § 10.7.3  Behavior
> >     Configuration file handling must conform to the following
> >     behavior:
> >     • local changes must be preserved during a package upgrade
>
> Well, strictly speaking, if the user had let that option at it's
> Debian default, than there wasn't a local change.

This argument doesn't work.

If the configuration the /user/ set gets changed without any
notification, then what that says to the user is that /they/ don't
control those config files.

In the worst case, there are settings in ssh_config and sshd_config
that are simple yes/no.  So this argument could be used to switch a
setting to "no" if the default was "yes" unless the user did so
already.  :-/

   -- Chris

-- 
Chris Knadle
Chris.Knadle@coredump.us


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