openssh unix dev - Dec 2000 - hostinstall target?

It would be very useful if openssh could have the same sort of
hostinstall target that traditional ssh does.  The ssh programs only
have to be installed once, for central distribution via nfs or rdist or
whatever, but every host needs its key ...

Thanks for a great program.

karl at gnu.org

On Sun, 24 Dec 2000 karl at gnu.org wrote:
> It would be very useful if openssh could have the same sort of
> hostinstall target that traditional ssh does.  The ssh programs only
> have to be installed once, for central distribution via nfs or rdist or
> whatever, but every host needs its key ...
What does the hostinstall target do?

OpenSSH does support a "host-key" which will generate keys in
@sysconfdir@

-d

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Hi Damien,

    What does the hostinstall target do?
    OpenSSH does support a "host-key" which will generate keys in
@sysconfdir@

Yes, and this is the most important thing that hostinstall does too.

However, host-key by itself fails by itself without doing a full `install'
first:
couldn't read entropy commands file /l/etc/openssh/ssh_prng_cmds: No such
file or directory
couldn't read entropy commands file /l/etc/openssh/ssh_prng_cmds: No such
file or directory

(I've configured with --sysconfdir=/l/etc/openssh.)

So, the parts of install that host key generation depends on could be
split off into a separate target, that host-key could depend on.
This is ssh_prng_commands and the config files, at least; I didn't
actually try it, so don't know if there's anything else.

Thanks (and happy holidays :),
Karl