From owner-freebsd-current Fri Feb 25 10:45:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEA9537BBE8; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 10:45:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id KAA15018; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 10:45:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 10:45:34 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Kennaway To: Ollivier Robert Cc: "FreeBSD Current Users' list" , markm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: openssh uses /etc (bad) In-Reply-To: <20000225135140.A476@caerdonn.eurocontrol.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, 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. In case you hadn't already found out, Peter fixed this. > We have /etc/ssl, /etc/mail, /etc/ppp, /etc/uucp and the ssh2 port uses > /etc/ssh2 so it is only natural to use /etc/ssh. > > BTW manual build in /usr/src/crypto/openssh (i.e. outside buildworld) is > rather broken but I'm sure Mark will look at that. crypto/ is the analogue of contrib/ for crypto code. You're not supposed to build there..look under secure/. Kris ---- "How many roads must a man walk down, before you call him a man?" "Eight!" "That was a rhetorical question!" "Oh..then, seven!" -- Homer Simpson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message