Re: Portable openssh.

From: Volker Birk (bumens_at_dingens.org)
Date: 10/05/03 

Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2003 21:37:43 +0200

In comp.os.linux.security Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@comcast.net> wrote:
> Please note, since we're posting in comp.os.linux.security: all a PGP
> key proves is that you have the same key as someone who used it
> elsewhere.

I'm looking forward to our next keysigning party ;-)

>> Because they're not translating the config files into the new syntax
>> if that is needed?
> Because this process is extremely difficult to do reliably for an
> automated procedure.

Sorry, no. With updating, normally you can assume that the features of
the old version is a subset of the features of the new version. So a
formal translation is not a big problem. But it would be good practice
to ask the user what she/he wants - keeping the old config file,
replacing this by a new one or rewriting the old config file to the
syntax of the new format. If you cannot assume that, you are warned
by the documentation and can decide from case to case.

Writing a compiler for config file formats with different versions
should be not complicated at all.

> Examples include sites that use alternative SSH
> ports, and thus you'd have to find and auto-edit all of their
> configuration files.

Not for updating. And that was the topic.

VB. 

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