Subject: Re: add 'ssh' to /rescue?
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Denis Lagno <dlagno@smtp.ru>
List: current-users
Date: 06/04/2004 17:35:03
> > > Should we add ssh to /rescue?  I do my backup dumps
> to remote machines
> > > via ssh tunnels; I therefore need ssh to restore from
> them.  (Over the
> > > weekend, I used a NetBSD Live CD.)

> > sure !!!

> er.. I'm not so sure.  That seems like it'll make
> /rescue a lot bigger.
> Keep in mind that everything in there is statically
> linked, so including
> ssh pulls in not only the ssh binary (>200k, and another
> 250k if you include
> sshd), but also the libraries it's linked against.  (e.g.
> libcrypto)
> 	/rescue is less that 3M right now.

many people are doing encrypted backups, it is not
consistently to add ssh and not to add openssl/bdes.