On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:
>> unfortunately I don't know too much about SMF so I'm also concerned
>> about probably not only my favourite way of running ssh with changed
>> configuration:
>>
>> sshd -f /dev/null -o .... -o ....
>>
>> this way would now mean to consult SMF which is something completely
>> different. Would I have to create a new SMF instance for this? We could
>> introduce something like UseSMF keyword but that could just add more
>> complexity.
>
>No. If -f is used, that file should be required to exist, and its contents
>should be the configuration, period, even if it is empty. This is a case
>of a command-line argument overriding both SMF and the default config file.
yes, but the consensus so far was that if the config contains just
empty lines or comments it means that the configuration is in SMF. That
clearly doesn't fit into the situation where I can now use /dev/null to
force all options to be set to default.
--
Jan Pechanec
