On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 06:48:26PM +0200, Andreas Fuchs wrote: > Package: ssh > Version: 1:3.0.2p1-9 > Severity: wishlist > > Mario Lang discovered that adding this line to your inittab can save > one's life on a machine which one can not access physically well: > > ss:12345:respawn:/usr/sbin/sshd -D > > This respawns sshd as soon as it gets killed, thus always keeping the > machine accessible from outside. As this is not reasonable in an > environment where the network is not always accessible (maybe make that > "2345" only) or where sshd needs to remain kill-able. > > My guess is that this should be optional, with maybe a debconf question > outlining the advantages and disadvantages of that line, default to "No" > (-: > > If you're interested, I can try to provide a draft for the question.
I don't think that this should be a debconf question: there are already too many of them, and editing /etc/inittab from ssh's postinst is going to be risky and error-prone. I'd be happy to document the approach in README.Debian, though: please feel free to send some suggested text. (Sorry for taking so long to respond to this bug report.) Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
