Re: Change to OpenSSH - HomeDirectory

[Ignatios Souvatzis <is%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 11:18:12AM -0500, D'Arcy Cain wrote:
> What is the process to change third party code?  I needed a change
> to openssh which I think is generally useful.  Here is the bugzilla
> report that I submitted to the OpenSSH project:
> 
> https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1951
> 
> Unfortunately it seems to be stalled and I would prefer not to keep
> changing my local copy.
> 
> So, a couple of questions.  First of all, does this look like a
> reasonable enhancement?  This was worked out by david@ and myself.
> Neither of us could come up with a cleaner method to do what this
> option does,

In your example case, cd /u && ln -s . u  would do the trick.
At least, that's the canonical cheat sheet for tftpd setup :-)

I wonder what more complicated scenarios would be possible with
your change, and whether the added complexity is outweighed by
the benefit.

        -is
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