Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 14:34:15 -0700 (PDT) From: brian@hyperreal.org To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: ports/7323: "make install" of ssh blows away host key pair Message-ID: <199807192134.OAA25164@hub.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 7323 >Category: ports >Synopsis: "make install" of ssh blows away host key pair >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-ports >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sun Jul 19 14:40:00 PDT 1998 >Last-Modified: >Originator: Brian Behlendorf >Organization: >Release: 2.2.6 >Environment: FreeBSD taz.hyperreal.org 2.2.6-STABLE FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE #0: Mon Apr 27 14:56:51 PDT 1998 brian@taz.hyperreal.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/taz i386 >Description: When conducting a /usr/ports based install of ssh, a "make install" obliterates any preexisting host keys. A "make install" should instead look for any pre-existing keys and use them, or at least prompt to ask if the user wishes to make new keys. It could be argued that this is a bug in ssh, or that I shouldn't expect a "make install" to be nice about things like this, but I would counter that it defeats the purpose of a "ports" collection as an ease-of-use feature if I need to inspect closely every package I build with it. I feel guilty about complaining about an otherwise excellent setup. >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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