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Date:      Fri, 25 Feb 2000 11:03:37 -0500
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        Ollivier Robert <roberto@eurocontrol.fr>, "FreeBSD Current Users' list" <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        markm@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: openssh uses /etc (bad)
Message-ID:  <v04210116b4dc5781e8eb@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <20000225135140.A476@caerdonn.eurocontrol.fr>
References:  <20000225135140.A476@caerdonn.eurocontrol.fr>

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At 1:51 PM +0100 2/25/00, Ollivier Robert wrote:
>I just saw that openssh (thanks Mark!) is using /etc/ for its configuration
>file. As the author of the "--with-etcdir" option of SSH (back in '96) and
>for the sake of consistency, I'd like to create a /etc/ssh directory and
>move everything there.

I have always installed ssh that way too (so thanks for the option! :-).
When I am rebuilding a system, ssh is about the first thing I bring up,
and I want to make sure I do that with all the right settings and
hostkey.  Having all those files inside one directory makes that easy.


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Garance Alistair Drosehn           =   gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer          or  drosih@rpi.edu
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute


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