On Wednesday 16 September 2009 21:18:03 Tom Worster wrote: > On 9/16/09 2:37 PM, "Mel Flynn" > > <mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net> wrote: > > On Wednesday 16 September 2009 20:21:40 Chris Cowart wrote: > >> Tom Worster wrote: > >>> thanks, Mel, that's good to know. > >>> > >>> i think your suggestion of modifying rc.conf will turn out to be a tidy > >>> solution for me. > >> > >> You could also just put: > >> > >> sshd_flags="-o X11Forwarding=no" > >> > >> into your /etc/rc.conf file. > > > > What he wants is passing arguments without touching config files, which I > > find myself needing sometimes as well, on machines where static > > partitions are mounted read-only + kern.secure_level. > > that's right. > > when i read in 11.7 of the handbook: "Since the rc.d system is primarily > intended to start/stop services at system startup/shutdown time, ..." i > thought: maybe i'm making things hard by trying to use rc.d scripts when i > could just execute the daemon's binary.
One downside I forgot to mention: You do open yourself up now to SSHD_FLAGS="-o AllowRoot=yes", so you may need to complicate the logic a bit more, by sanitizing SSHD_FLAGS. -- Mel _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
