On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, James Carlson wrote:
>Huie-Ying Lee writes:
>> I can change the relevant lines as below, if that looks better.
>>
>> #Port forwarding
>> #AllowTcpForwarding yes
>
>I think it's a little less surprising that way, so I prefer it, but
>now that I understand the project a good bit better, it's not a
>significant issue.
>
>> > Why not just change the way it installs, so that it installs as
>> > "AllowTcpForwarding yes" by default, and leaves it unchanged on
>> > upgrade or patch?
>> >
>> >
>> Right, that's our goal also. What would be the right release binding ?
>
>Patch/micro is the right release binding. What's missing is the
>description of how the delivery will work. Something like this:
when we discussed this removal in the ssh iteam we thought that
we should not do that in patch. It might be suprising to our customers
and also patching the sshd_config is always a little bit tricky and RPE
prefer not to do that.
I can't find a working search for the mail aliases but I put
this note to the CR (6830483).
# this was discussed and agreed on on the ssh-iteam@ alias, in Octorber
# 23, 2008, with the subject "AllowTcpForwarding off by default - why?"
J.
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