Or install the version from ports and deactivate the base version...
On 2010-05-12 10:42:00PM +0200, Matthieu Michaud wrote:> I would like to share a solution of a problem I faced with the current
> version of OpenSSH in 8-STABLE (5.4p1).
>
> Last upgrade of my system updated OpenSSH from 5.2p1 to 5.4p1 which has a
> regression for those using a non-default AuthorizedKeysFile option set to a
> relative path (".ssh/keys" in my case). If you are using the
default you
> are not affected.
>
> As I had authentication mechanism restricted to public keys and this
> parameter expands to //.ssh/keys with the regression I wasn't able to
> access my server after restart.
>
> It's fixed in 5.5p1 which is not yet imported in the 8-STABLE branch.
>
> To get back this option working you either have to wait for 5.5p1 merge to
> 8-STABLE, install it yourself or import the following patch from the vendor
> and rebuild sshd. I opted for the last solution. Here's how I did it :
>
> cd /usr/src/crypto/openssh
>
> fetch -o -
>
'http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/ssh/servconf.c.diff?r1=1.207;r2=1.204'
> | patch
>
> cd /usr/src/secure/usr.sbin/sshd
> make obj depend
> make all
> make install
>
> Hope it helps,
> Matthieu
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