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Added note regarding general OpenSSH policies failing against platfor…
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…ms with back-ported features. (#236)
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jtesta committed Jan 28, 2024
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Expand Up @@ -814,6 +814,7 @@ def list_policies(out: OutputBuffer) -> None:
out.fail("Error: no built-in policies found!")
else:
out.info("\nHint: Use -P and provide the full name of a policy to run a policy scan with.\n")
out.info("Note: the general OpenSSH policies apply to the official releases only. OS distributions may back-port changes that cause failures (for example, Debian 11 back-ported the strict KEX mode into their package of OpenSSH v8.4, whereas it was only officially added to OpenSSH v9.6 and later). In these cases, consider creating a custom policy (-M option).\n")
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