From owner-freebsd-security Mon Mar 5 7:24:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from C126508-B.rchdsn1.tx.home.com (c126508-b.rchdsn1.tx.home.com [24.7.19.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0A0637B718 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 07:24:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdunfee@C126508-B.rchdsn1.tx.home.com) Received: (from jdunfee@localhost) by C126508-B.rchdsn1.tx.home.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f25FdDn13380; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 09:39:13 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jdunfee) From: "Jonathan D. Dunfee" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: <15011.45857.351854.898433@C126508-B.rchdsn1.tx.home.com> Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 09:39:13 -0600 (CST) To: Dan Harnett Cc: Will Andrews , =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9mi_Guyomarch?= , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sshd - @ WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! @ In-Reply-To: <20010302223302.A24506@mail.wzrd.com> References: <200103010819.JAA82842@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <20010301102957.B55211@ringworld.oblivion.bg> <20010302064857.C54730@diabolic-cow.chatgris.net> <20010302192645.U17292@ohm.physics.purdue.edu> <20010302223302.A24506@mail.wzrd.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: Jonathan Dunfee Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, To expound on what Dan mentioned, the portable version of OpenSSH places (and references) configuration files according to the "--sysconfdir=3D" option that you give to the configure script. The default is ${prefix}/etc, which actually gives /usr/local/etc/ if '--prefix=3D' hasn't been set. I think the confusion occurs because most distributions and packages set this to /etc/ssh/ (FreeBSD and Redhat to name two). Jon Dan Harnett writes: > On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 07:26:45PM -0500, Will Andrews wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 06:48:57AM +0100, R=E9mi Guyomarch wrote: > > > No, it's FreeBSD-specific. > >=20 > > No. It's OpenSSH-specific. Please, go login to some Linux box wi= th > > OpenSSH installed and see for yourself. > >=20 >=20 > It's not OpenSSH-specific. OpenBSD puts it in /etc. It's really up= =20 > to the distributor. >=20 > -- > Dan Harnett >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message --=20 Jonathan D. Dunfee jdunfee@acm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message