Bug#512209: Please don't touch sshd from interfaces-up

2009-01-18 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Sun, 18 Jan 2009, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > > Peter Palfrader writes: > > Yes, I read that. I don't think this would ever be a problem unless you > > explicitly listen only on a specific address, and then I'd think that > > sshd wouldn't even start so the reload couldn't have been a fix for

Bug#512209: Please don't touch sshd from interfaces-up

2009-01-18 Thread Perry E. Metzger
Peter Palfrader writes: > Yes, I read that. I don't think this would ever be a problem unless you > explicitly listen only on a specific address, and then I'd think that > sshd wouldn't even start so the reload couldn't have been a fix for > that. Unless of course you listen on more than one sp

Bug#512209: Please don't touch sshd from interfaces-up

2009-01-18 Thread Perry E. Metzger
Russ Allbery writes: > Colin Watson writes: > >> I vaguely remember some problem where INADDR_ANY meant "all the >> interfaces that happen to be up at bind() time" rather than "all the >> interfaces that are up whenever packets arrive". Am I hallucinating? > > I think this can be true if the int

Bug#512209: Please don't touch sshd from interfaces-up

2009-01-18 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Sun, 18 Jan 2009, Colin Watson wrote: > > Why restart it at all? There's little point in the default > > configuration where sshd listens on INADDR_ANY. > > > > At least make it configurable and don't mess with it from interfaces by > > default. > Hmm. This was in response to: > https://bu

Bug#512209: Please don't touch sshd from interfaces-up

2009-01-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Colin Watson writes: > I vaguely remember some problem where INADDR_ANY meant "all the > interfaces that happen to be up at bind() time" rather than "all the > interfaces that are up whenever packets arrive". Am I hallucinating? I think this can be true if the interfaces differ by protocol. If

Bug#512209: Please don't touch sshd from interfaces-up

2009-01-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 05:59:18PM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote: > Package: openssh-server > Version: 1:5.1p1-5 > > | * Check that /var/run/sshd.pid exists and that the process ID listed there > | corresponds to sshd before running '/etc/init.d/ssh reload' from if-up > | script; SIGHUP is racy

Bug#512209: Please don't touch sshd from interfaces-up

2009-01-18 Thread Peter Palfrader
Package: openssh-server Version: 1:5.1p1-5 | * Check that /var/run/sshd.pid exists and that the process ID listed there | corresponds to sshd before running '/etc/init.d/ssh reload' from if-up | script; SIGHUP is racy if called at boot before sshd has a chance to | install its signal handler