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[Jeremy Blosser <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org>]

On Apr 16, Vlad Glagolev [stealth AT sourcemage.org] wrote:
> Okay, this is my bad exp..
> 
> While upgrading openssl (and triggerring cast of openssh) from 0.9 to 1.0 
> -- don't do this via ssh, or you'll
> loose access to the server (if you have _only_ ssh access to it) and after 
> reboot it won't be up&&running...

This has always been the case with major version upgrades of openssl.  via
screen is your best hope, as someone noted, though if the updates failes
for some reason, you're driving somewhere.

Note too that you usually need an sshd stop, sshd start, not just a reload.

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