openssh unix dev - Nov 2005 - Call for release testing

Hi All,

We are planning on doing one of our regular releases (4.3/4.3p1) in
around a week. This is a bugfix release, but a few of the portability
bits have changed, so we would again appreciate testing on as many
systems as possible. 

Some of the bugs fixed and internal improvements are:

 * X forwarding won't start when a command is executed in background
   (Bug #1086)

 * Change ssh-keygen to generate a RSA2 key when invoked without
   arguments (Bug #1064)

 * Fix timing variance for valid vs. invalid accounts when attempting
   Kerberos authentication (Bug #975)

 * Cleanup wtmp files on SIGTERM when not using privsep (Bug #1029)

 * X11 applications can sometimes not connect to 127.0.0.1:60xx by
   setting SO_REUSEADDR on X11 listeners (Bug #1076)

 * Xauth list invocation has bogus "." argument (Bug #1082)

 * Man page fixes:
   #1037 - Man page for -L and -R should mention -g.
   #1077 - Descriptions for "ssh -D" and DynamicForward should mention
    they can specify "bind_address" optionally.
   #1088 - Incorrect descriptions in ssh_config man page for 
    ControlMaster=no.

 * Lots of cleanups, including fixes to memory leaks on error paths
   (Bugs #1109, #1110, #1111 and more) and possible crashes (bug #1092)

 * Portable OpenSSH-specific fixes:
   - PAM message reporting fixes:
     #1045 - Missing option for ignoring the /etc/nologin file
     #1087 - Show PAM password expiry message from LDAP on login
     #1028 - Forward final non-query conversations to client

   - Portability-related fixes:
     #1097 - Cross-compile fixes.
     #989 - Fix multiplexing regress test on Solairs
     #1096 - ssh-keygen broken on HPUX.
     #1098 - $MAIL being set incorrectly for HPUX server login.
     #1104 - Compile error on Tru64 Unix 4.0f
     #1106 - Updated .spec file and startup for SuSE.

More detail may be found in the ChangeLog in the portable OpenSSH
tarballs.

The OpenBSD version is available in CVS HEAD:
http://www.openbsd.org/anoncvs.html

Portable snapshots are available at:
ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/OpenSSH/portable/snapshot/
or one of its mirrors listed at http://www.openssh.com/portable.html#ftp

Running the regression tests supplied with Portable does not require
installation and is a simply:

$ ./configure && make tests

Testing on suitable non-production systems is also appreciated.
Please send reports of success or failure to
openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org.

Thanks,
Damien Miller

On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 08:09:06PM +1100, Damien Miller
wrote:
> Please send reports of success or failure to
> openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org.
Compiles find and all tests pass here on my x86 Gentoo Linux.


//Peter

On Nov 24 20:09, Damien Miller wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> We are planning on doing one of our regular releases (4.3/4.3p1) in
> around a week. This is a bugfix release, but a few of the portability
> bits have changed, so we would again appreciate testing on as many
> systems as possible. 
Cygwin: Build and tests successfully.


Thanks,
Corinna

-- 
Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Project Co-Leader
Red Hat, Inc.

On Nov 24 20:09, Damien Miller wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> We are planning on doing one of our regular releases (4.3/4.3p1) in
> around a week. This is a bugfix release, but a few of the portability
> bits have changed, so we would again appreciate testing on as many
> systems as possible. 
 
Build and tests were successful on HP-UX 11.11 & 11.23 platforms.

Thanks
Michael

On Thu, 24 Nov 2005, Damien Miller wrote:
> We are planning on doing one of our regular releases (4.3/4.3p1) in
> around a week. This is a bugfix release, but a few of the portability
> bits have changed, so we would again appreciate testing on as many
> systems as possible.
at the same time I'd like feedback on and testing of the SSHFP DNS feature 
as some people has reported problems.

See README.dns for more information.

 	jakob

On Thu, 24 Nov 2005, Damien Miller wrote:
> Running the regression tests supplied with Portable does not require
> installation and is a simply:
>
> $ ./configure && make tests
openssh-SNAP-20031223 on
Darwin xyzzy 8.3.0 Darwin Kernel Version 8.3.0:
Mon Oct  3 20:04:04 PDT 2005;
root:xnu-792.6.22.obj~2/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc

'make tests' exited with

run test agent-getpeereid.sh ...
ssh-add did not fail for nobody: 1 < 2
failed disallow agent attach from other uid
make[1]: *** [t-exec] Error 1
make: *** [tests] Error 2



 	jakob