[Bug 554] RFE: PATH_SSH_KEY_SIGN, SSH_RAND_HELPER

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http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=554

elkner at linofee.org changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|RESOLVED                    |REOPENED
         Resolution|WORKSFORME                  |



------- Additional Comments From elkner at linofee.org  2003-06-04 23:26 -------
Symlinks are not a solution. E.g., if you install openssh on a shared volume
(i.e. NFS) named /usr/local, you can't expect, that the admin creates on dozens of
other machines a link from /usr/sbin/.... to /usr/local/,,,.

Furthermore symlinks are a bad solution wrt. NFS shared fs. E.g. something refers
to /usr/sbin/... and that is a link to /usr/local, which is an NFS drive, which is
not available for any reason, the whole machine starts hanging.

Also symlinks may sometimes impose security risk and are usually slower than
direct access.

Hardcoding pathes is really an ancient practice and should be avoided in a
modern application. Symlinks are not a solution as well, they are more or less
an "instrument" to save diskspace and to "keep files uptodate". It is NOT an
"instrument" to solve application weaknesses!



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