From owner-freebsd-security Fri Jun 4 8:48: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (GndRsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33D41152FB for ; Fri, 4 Jun 1999 08:47:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com) Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA21218; Fri, 4 Jun 1999 08:40:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rgrimes) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199906041540.IAA21218@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: SSH2 (in FreeBSD-Questions) In-Reply-To: <96085.928510202@verdi.nethelp.no> from "sthaug@nethelp.no" at "Jun 4, 1999 05:30:02 pm" To: sthaug@nethelp.no Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 15:40:25 +0000 (GMT) Cc: marquis@roble.com, security@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > One thing ports don't do well is install themselves in predictable > > locations. Instead you'll find them installing files in > > /usr/local/etc, /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/sbin, /usr/local/libexec, > > /var, etc. When I install ssh2 I want it all under /usr/local/ssh. What does a typical path variable look like on your systems??? Long paths are bad for shells. Yea, I know, the hashing stuff should keep a single copy of a shell pretty quick, but every time you fork off another one your going to have to go hash the path list. > > This alone is a good reason to use ports sparingly (after reviewing the > > patches). > > Having everything under /usr/local/ssh is convenient in many way, but > I don't believe there is any kind of agreement that this is *the* only > correct way. Myself, I'm happy to have ssh, ssh-keygen etc. under > /usr/local/bin (actually /local/bin here) and sshd under /usr/local/sbin. I would actually rather have sshd in /usr/local/libexec, it's not something you really run from the command line :-) -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message