On Monday 02 January 2006 16:36, you wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 01:27:08PM +0200, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
wrote:
> > 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).
obviously (in hindsight)
> 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..
What suprised me is not the precedence order (that's clear to me, though
adding something about it won't hurt), but that the documentation doesn't
describe the out-of-the-box situation (i.e. even though I haven't changed
anything the documentation doesn't describe the actual situation)
So maybe add a section to the man-page saying something like
"the debian ssh package ships with the following non-default settings:
- option A set to X
- option B set to Y
...
"
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Cheers, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
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