Re: SSH buglist cleanup.
On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 11:26:58PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > If that's the case, then I'd remove PrintMotd also,
> > for consistency. Currently, I'm thinking that the
> > most logical thing to do would be to add a PrintLastlog
> > next to PrintMotd, and make their default value depend
> > on whether PAM is in or not. That way everyone won't have
> > to turn it off; it will be off -- but if someone wants to
> > take pam_lastlog away, then ssh can still do it also.
> My patch takes both functions completly out of ssh when pam is enabled. No
> sense in having them.
>
> It would be good to purge the options too..
Yes, I understand your point. But I don't like the
idea of PAM-ssh config files being non-compatible
with the non-PAM version.
In my little mind having config options for both
items is best, because:
1) if someone for some reason does not want to use
pam_motd and pam_lastlog, he can still enable
ssh to do them
2) if the options change their defaults based on
whether PAM is in or not, there is no configuration
needed
3) it gives more flexibility, not less.
Then again, things like this should be decided by the
"upstream". But "upstream" is sometimes OpenBSD, sometimes
the linux porter, etc. And they have no bug list visible
as far as I know. I'm trying to contact the linux porter
to see if he has any thoughts.
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