openssh unix dev - Jun 2001 - Default Path in sshd_config

I was just building binary Solaris packages of OpenSSH for use at
our company. While doing so, it occurred to me that the only thing
that really stops me from being able to make a binary build totally
relocatable in the filesystem tree is the default path. Other than
that, I cannot think of any file path that cannot be modified with
either a command line option or in a configuration file.

Is there a reason that, for example,

  DefaultPath /opt/openssh/bin

Could not be something put into the sshd_config file? Or does this
exist in the code, but not (or I missed it) in the documentation?

(Oh, and I still need to hack around with the manpages by hand to
get them to work in Solaris, but I think that is a known issue?)
-- 
Crist J. Clark                                Network Security Engineer
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On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 03:20:03PM -0700, Crist Clark
wrote:
> I was just building binary Solaris packages of OpenSSH for use at
> our company. While doing so, it occurred to me that the only thing
> that really stops me from being able to make a binary build totally
> relocatable in the filesystem tree is the default path. Other than
> that, I cannot think of any file path that cannot be modified with
> either a command line option or in a configuration file.
> 
> Is there a reason that, for example,
> 
>   DefaultPath /opt/openssh/bin
> 
> Could not be something put into the sshd_config file? Or does this
> exist in the code, but not (or I missed it) in the documentation?
> 
> (Oh, and I still need to hack around with the manpages by hand to
> get them to work in Solaris, but I think that is a known issue?)
> -- 
> Crist J. Clark                                Network Security Engineer
> crist.clark at globalstar.com                    Globalstar, L.P.
> (408) 933-4387                                FAX: (408) 933-4926


There are more compiled-in defaults than that; if you do a 'strings' on
all
the binaries you'll see them.  There's at least the 'primes'
file, and if
you use the built-in prng there's also the 'ssh_prng_cmds' file.

I use my general-purpose binary relocater, available at
    http://www.bell-labs.com/project/nsbd/breloc.html

- Dave Dykstra