2009/7/3 Nicolas Pierron <[email protected]>: > Hi Peter, > > On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 13:37, Peter Simons<[email protected]> wrote: >> the 'ssh' client from OpenSSH reads /etc/sshd/config. As it happens, >> that file exists and contains settings OpenSSH doesn't understand >> (because the file was installed by an entirely different SSH version >> that's located in /usr). As a result, the ssh client from Nix doesn't >> work. >> >> Now I wonder: Should OpenSSH honor config files in /etc? Or ought that >> to be considered an impurity? > > If possible OpenSSH should use a configuration file located in any > places in the file system (set with command line or env-vars). If for > some reason OpenSSH cannot handle such case, then the activation > script should replace the previous file by the generated one. > Otherwise this is an impurity.
Peter asks for the ssh *client*, so the activation script doesn't apply. IMO, /etc/sshd/ files should be as honored as /etc/bashrc. _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
