Bug#345628: man page documents faulty default

[Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>]

On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 01:27:08PM +0200, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote:
> Package: openssh-server
> Severity: minor
> Version: 1:4.2p1-5
> 
> according to sshd_config(5) tels us that UsePAM defaults to 'no', yet a 
> fresh install of openssh-server has this set to 'yes'
#345628 is stronly related to #327886 and loosely related to #147201.

It seems clear to me that the default values in ssh{,d}_config are NOT
the values encoded in the ssh{,d} binaries, and that the config files
(and environment variables, and environment variables) exist to
override those defaults (or document the most often-changed
parameters).

Perhaps there should be a section somewhere in ssh manpages section 1
and 5 to the effect of "this is the order of precedence of where
parameter values come from", and documenting the different places, I
don't know .. it wasn't entirely intuitive to me that I could have a
~/.ssh/ssh_config, and I guess it would be nice if this had popped out
at me from somewhere other than the FILES section, one day when I had
reason to read the ssh manpage in entirety..

-- 
Clear skies,
Justin