Dear OpenSSH maintainers,
I am packaging openssh-known-hosts for Debian with Philipp Kern (Cc:'ed) as
my mentor. It is designed for institutions with many hosts and central host
key management.
It can download known_hosts files, verify their integrity, filter hostnames
and merge everything into one file. That file is
/var/lib/openssh-known-hosts/ssh_known_hosts.
To lower configuration work for the admin my package's postinst script[1]
creates a symlink /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts to it if there is nothing in that
place already, else it emits a warning.
Do you think it is OK to put that symlink into /etc/ssh/? What do you
recommend for the case that /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts is already there?