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Date:      Tue, 1 Apr 1997 09:56:55 +0100 (BST)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com>
Cc:        Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.dialix.com>, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-ports@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/security/ssh/pkg PLIST 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970401095601.305B-100000@kipper.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <199704010547.VAA00771@precipice.shockwave.com>

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On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, Paul Traina wrote:

> 
>   From: Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM>
>   Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/security/ssh/pkg PLIST 
>   Paul Traina wrote:
>   > pst         97/03/31 19:34:31
>   > 
>   >   Modified:    security/ssh/pkg  PLIST
>   >   Log:
>   >   Generate host key in /etc to match the port
>   
>   Are you sure about this?  Makefile still has:
>   
>   CONFIGURE_ARGS= --prefix=${PREFIX} --with-etcdir=${PREFIX}/etc
>   
>   Has ssh stopped supporting --with-etcdir?
> 
> No, but someone hacked the sshd.config file to override that, so
> it actually uses /etc.  I don't know whether this is a bug or not,
> it's not a bug for me/us because /usr/local is shared.
> 
> We *really* need to finalize how we want to deal with shared /usr/local
> stuff, this insistance that /usr/local is unique is short-sighted.

Wouldn't it be useful to have /var/local as well as /usr/local.  Machine
unique stuff like ssh keys etc. can go in /var/local and shared stuff can
go in /usr/local.

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Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
Nonlinear Systems Ltd.			Phone: +44 181 951 1891




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