openssh bugs - Aug 2009 - [Bug 1629] New: allow --port=#### option at configuration time?

https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1629

           Summary: allow --port=#### option at configuration time?
           Product: Portable OpenSSH
           Version: 5.2p1
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: Build system
        AssignedTo: unassigned-bugs at mindrot.org
        ReportedBy: mike.ellis at fmr.com


I used the awesome "make package" option to create a native Solaris
package. I wanted to run this version of openSSH on port 2222 instead
of port 22, but that now meant I had to "pkgtrans the package" that
"make package" created, edit the config-file, and re-pack it.

If at "./configure time" you could specify certain variables such as
port, pidfile, and potentially some others that would work their way
all the way into the sshd config file, the "make package" produced
package would be immediately useable.

just a thought.

thanks,

-- MikeE

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Darren Tucker <dtucker at zip.com.au> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Darren Tucker <dtucker at zip.com.au>  2009-08-05
23:11:24 ---
Why don't you just do "echo PidFile /some/file.pid >>
sshd_config"
before running "make package"?

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--- Comment #2 from mikee <mike.ellis at fmr.com>  2009-08-06 00:33:33 ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> Why don't you just do "echo PidFile /some/file.pid >>
sshd_config"
> before running "make package"?

Fair enough -- so the way to do this is basically to pre-edit the
config-file template, so that its cooked into the final package.

Having those entries available as "options" to ./configure would seem
like a reasonable place to have them, maybe as some sort of free-form
--options=xxx=###,zzz=yyy which will customize those options into the
sshdconfig files. 

thanks for the suggestion on how to do this.

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Tim Rice <tim at multitalents.net> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Tim Rice <tim at multitalents.net>  2009-08-06
03:36:24 ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > Why don't you just do "echo PidFile /some/file.pid >>
sshd_config"
> > before running "make package"?
> 
> 
> Fair enough -- so the way to do this is basically to pre-edit the
> config-file template, so that its cooked into the final package.
Or create pkg-post-make-install-fixes.sh script to modify sshd_config
installed in $FAKE_ROOT
pkg-post-make-install-fixes.sh will be run as part of "make package"

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Darren Tucker <dtucker at zip.com.au> changed:

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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX


--- Comment #4 from Darren Tucker <dtucker at zip.com.au> 2009-08-20
23:17:45 EST ---
configure is already quite the monster so I don't think it's a good
idea to introduce additional monsterism to handle something that can be
done in a line or two of shell.  Thanks anyway but I don't think we'll
be doing this.

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Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> changed:

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             Status|RESOLVED                    |CLOSED

--- Comment #5 from Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> 2009-10-06 15:02:14
EST ---
Mass move of RESOLVED bugs to CLOSED now that 5.3 is out.

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