"LogLevel SILENT" (-qq) was introduced in Debian openssh 1:3.0.1p1-1 to
match the behaviour of non-free SSH, in which -q does not suppress fatal
errors. However, this was unintentionally broken in 1:4.6p1-2 and nobody
complained, so we've dropped most of it. The parts that remain are basic
configuration file compatibility, and an adjustment to "Pseudo-terminal will
not be allocated ..." which should be split out into a separate patch.
Author: Matthew Vernon <matthew@debian.org>
Author: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
Last-Update: 2013-09-14
Patch-Name: syslog-level-silent.patch
Gbp-Pq: Name syslog-level-silent.patch
This patch has been rejected upstream: "None of the OpenSSH developers are
in favour of adding this, and this situation has not changed for several
years. This is not a slight on Simon's patch, which is of fine quality, but
just that a) we don't trust GSSAPI implementations that much and b) we don't
like adding new KEX since they are pre-auth attack surface. This one is
particularly scary, since it requires hooks out to typically root-owned
system resources."
However, quite a lot of people rely on this in Debian, and it's better to
have it merged into the main openssh package rather than having separate
-krb5 packages (as we used to have). It seems to have a generally good
security history.
Origin: other, https://github.com/openssh-gsskex/openssh-gsskex/commits/debian/master
Bug: https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1242
Last-Updated: 2020-02-21
Patch-Name: gssapi.patch
Gbp-Pq: Name gssapi.patch
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