Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 17:10:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Behlendorf <brian@hyperreal.org> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/7323: "make install" of ssh blows away host key pair Message-ID: <199807200010.RAA11336@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/7323; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Brian Behlendorf <brian@hyperreal.org>
To: Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com>, freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc: Subject: Re: ports/7323: "make install" of ssh blows away host key pair
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 16:52:16 -0700
At 07:08 PM 7/19/98 -0400, Matthew Hunt wrote:
>On Sun, Jul 19, 1998 at 02:34:15PM -0700, brian@hyperreal.org wrote:
>
>> >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.
>
>Are you certain?
Yes. A "make clean; make; make install" nuked it. I don't think I had to
do a "make deinstall" first. Now, this was the first time I had installed
it by going through the /usr/ports environment - previously I had simply
installed it from the ssh distribution tarball, using all the defaults it
had found.
Aha - looks like the defaults from the tarball were to install the keys in
/etc, whereas the one in /usr/ports puts them in /usr/local/etc. Okay,
makes sense now - adding some fool-proofness by checking in /etc and
prompting the user ("want to use these?") would seem like a good idea.
Updating the keys might not have been a bad idea anyways.
Brian
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