[Nix-dev] OpenSSH impurity

[Lluís Batlle]

2009/7/3 Nicolas Pierron <nicolas.b.pierron at gmail.com>:
> Hi Peter,
>
> On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 13:37, Peter Simons<simons at cryp.to> wrote:
>> the 'ssh' client from OpenSSH reads /etc/sshd/config. As it happens,
>> that file exists and contains settings OpenSSH doesn't understand
>> (because the file was installed by an entirely different SSH version
>> that's located in /usr). As a result, the ssh client from Nix doesn't
>> work.
>>
>> Now I wonder: Should OpenSSH honor config files in /etc? Or ought that
>> to be considered an impurity?
>
> If possible OpenSSH should use a configuration file located in any
> places in the file system (set with command line or env-vars).  If for
> some reason OpenSSH cannot handle such case, then the activation
> script should replace the previous file by the generated one.
> Otherwise this is an impurity.

Peter asks for the ssh *client*, so the activation script doesn't apply.

IMO, /etc/sshd/ files should be as honored as /etc/bashrc.