Request for TESTING: New ssh-host-config and ssh-user-config scripts

Tue Jan 9 05:59:00 GMT 2001

Hi,
I have made a change to ssh-user-config which should refuse
creating the user files when the /etc/passwd entry of the
user isn't ok.
Please, test it. I have attached both scripts again as
described in my original mail.
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 10:49:15PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Hi folks,
>> I have attached two new scripts which shall replace the former
> `ssh-config' script in the next Cygwin OpenSSH version.
>> The first script is called `ssh-host-config' and creates only the
> host configuration in /etc. I added two functionalities:
>> - It creates a line
>> 	sshd 22/tcp # SSH daemon
>> in the systems `services' file if it's not already present and
>> - it adds a line
>> 	# sshd stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/sshd -i
>> to /etc/inetd.conf if the file exists and a `sshd' line isn't
> already present. Note that this line is added as a comment!
>> To support testing and unattended installation ssh-host-config got
> some options:
>> usage: ssh-host-config [OPTION]...
> Options:
> --debug -d Enable shell's debug output.
> --yes -y Answer all questions with "yes" automatically.
> --no -n Answer all questions with "no" automatically.
>>> The second script is `ssh-user-config'. It can be called for each new
> user which needs a ssh configuration on the system. The additional
> functionality here is that the script asks if the newly created identities
> should be added to the authorized_keys files to allow login to this system.
>> To support testing and unattended installation ssh-user-config got
> some options as well:
>> usage: ssh-user-config [OPTION]...
> Options:
> --debug -d Enable shell's debug output.
> --yes -y Answer all questions with "yes" automatically.
> --no -n Answer all questions with "no" automatically.
> --passphrase -p word Use "word" as passphrase automatically.
>> Please, give those scripts a try. They will only work with the test
> version of OpenSSH which I announced yesterday because it uses the
> new ssh-keygen options and it tries to create SSH2 RSA keys.
>> Please report errors or problems in this mailing list and feel free
> to submit patches or new ideas for extending the functionality of
> both scripts.

Corinna
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