Bug#679751: please clarify package account and home directory location in policy
On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 10:04:45AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de> writes:
> > On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 02:29:53PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>
> >> Ah, okay. For that use case, the only thing that you would care about the
> >> user home directory containing is the authorized_keys file, correct?
>
> > known_hosts and the key itself.
>
> Oh, right, for the client. Yes, yes.
>
> Well, personally I would not consider either the client's key or the
> known_hosts file to be configuration files.
In some common situation, the known_hosts is clearly a configuration file.
If ssh is restricted to connection to known hosts, then the user is supposed
to prefill the known_hosts file with the small set of hosts that are allowed,
then it became a configuration file.
Cheers,
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Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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