[PATCH] "Include" option for ssh configs

Gavin Beatty gavinbeatty at gmail.com
Wed Mar 25 04:39:15 EST 2009


On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Jefferson Ogata
<Jefferson.Ogata at noaa.gov> wrote:
> On 2009-03-24 17:07, Gavin Beatty wrote:
>> - Fallbacks to /home/$USER are implemented for when struct passwd.pw_dir is
>>   NULL² after these calls.
>
> That is a not such a hot idea. You don't know what /home/ is. On some
> systems it's an NFS mount.

It's a rather throwaway feature. If it's wanted, keep it. I thought
about gutting it out myself. Just delete two `else if' blocks whole.


PS: I don't understand the significance of NFS in your example. The
probability of ~/.ssh/config also being on said NFS mount is near one.

-- 
Gavin Beatty

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