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Re: Fail to start the openssh-server in live-config 2.0.12 - Too many arguments



On 11/25/2010 02:38 AM, Steven Shiau wrote:
> maybe it's useful to have
> a boot parameter to disable this sshkey-gen, e.g.
> live-config.nosshkeygen or nosshkeygen. Some people might want to have a
> fixed ssh host key.

there are two ideals to persue here, one is to have as less boot
parameters as possible to make sure live-config stays as simple as
possible (both from a maintenance and users point of view), the other is
to make sure live-config provides a framework with maximum fine granular
control on what gets configured and what not.

since obviously both can't be acchieved at the same time, the compromise
so far was that:

  a) a new bootparameter gets added if it provides a shortcut
     (e.g. 'noautologin' that disables both the tty and graphical
     autologin, rather than specifying both)

  b) if a certain config script has more than one functionality that
     is reasonable to be able to disable on its own.

given that openssh-server currently doesn't have more than one function,
and, that there's no 'shorcut' here (nosshkeygen vs
noconfig=openssh-server; which is both just one parameter each), i think
we shouldn't add a destinctive parameter for it just yet.

what do you think about that? and unrelated to that, do you have any
other usefull thing that the openssh-server config script should do?

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