check into moving/renaming .ssh folder from home/.ssh to home/config/settings/ssh

[scottmc]

This was done for subversion in Haiku R1A1, look into what it would take to make this change and if it will break anything.

[diver]

ping.

[scottmc]

fixed in r661. I need to test the optionalpackage out once that is done it will be added into Haiku.

[andreasf]

Replying to scottmc:

look into what it would take to make this change and if it will break anything.

It breaks compatibility for people like me who populate their image with an RSA keypair, e.g., for accessing code repositories. But that should be minor, I even expected it to live in the proper place first.

[andreasf]

Replying to scottmc:

fixed in r661.

Hm, you're hardcoding it into the prefix. Wouldn't the proper fix be to determine the directory at runtime, by patching the OpenSSH source? :)

[bonefish]

Replying to andreasf:

Replying to scottmc:

fixed in r661.

Hm, you're hardcoding it into the prefix. Wouldn't the proper fix be to determine the directory at runtime, by patching the OpenSSH source? :)

Indeed. Using "finddir" at build time isn't much better than using the literal path.

[scottmc]

I'll see about fixing this in the source code.

[scottmc]

output of grep -nri 'sysconfdir' *

[scottmc]

added an attachment showing the output of grep -nri 'sysconfdir' *, which appears to be only used during build time. So hunting a solution down for this may not be as easy as I thought. I'll leave the ticket open until a run-time find_directory solution can be added.
With the r661 build time solution I put it in /boot/home/config/openssh, should it be /boot/home/config/ssh or is openssh ok?

[bonefish]

Replying to scottmc:

With the r661 build time solution I put it in /boot/home/config/openssh, should it be /boot/home/config/ssh or is openssh ok?

I would go with "ssh" as the contents is not really OpenSSH specific.

[scottmc]

Ok, so that didn't work out as I thought it would, so time to take a step back and ask someone who knows the openssh code better and might know if this is easily done or not.

[andreasf]

Keys appear to be taken from settings/ssh now, but adding servers to the known_hosts does not seem to work.

[mmadia]

Replying to andreasf:

Keys appear to be taken from settings/ssh now, but adding servers to the known_hosts does not seem to work.

experiencing this as well.

[augiedoggie]

Replying to mmadia:

Replying to andreasf:

Keys appear to be taken from settings/ssh now, but adding servers to the known_hosts does not seem to work.

experiencing this as well.

I was seeing this as well. Testing it right now on r36381 it seems the problem has gone away.

[scottmc]

closing this ticket as the directories have been changed. The known_hosts issue is being tracking on Haiku's trac  ticket 5787