[ale] Stumbled Re: Simple steps

[James P. Kinney III]

On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 12:28, J.M. Taylor wrote:

> When I'm *really* paranoid about this, I fire up the old sshd on a
> different port (cp /usr/local/sbin/sshd /usr/local/sbin/sshd.old;
> /usr/local/sbin/sshd.old -p 2222)
> then I log in on the *old* daemon on port 2222 and do steps 1 - 6 above.

This is probably the safest choice. Use the -f <configfile> -p
<new_port> flags and start a new sshd with the known good
sshd.config.bak. Log in with that to run the upgrade and verify version
on port 22 before logout.
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