[PATCH v3 2/2] Permit %L and %l percent escapes in sshd Include

Ronan Pigott ronan at rjp.ie
Tue Nov 14 17:58:19 AEDT 2023


This allows the localhost percent-style escapes in arguments to the
Include directive. These are useful for including host-specific sshd
configuration.
---
 servconf.c | 17 ++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/servconf.c b/servconf.c
index 86c2979360c5..daf8f2df15a2 100644
--- a/servconf.c
+++ b/servconf.c
@@ -1297,7 +1297,8 @@ process_server_config_line_depth(ServerOptions *options, char *line,
     struct connection_info *connectinfo, int *inc_flags, int depth,
     struct include_list *includes)
 {
-	char *str, ***chararrayptr, **charptr, *arg, *arg2, *p, *keyword;
+	char *str, ***chararrayptr, **charptr, *arg, *arg2, *arg_pre, *p, *keyword;
+	char thishost[NI_MAXHOST], shorthost[NI_MAXHOST];
 	int cmdline = 0, *intptr, value, value2, n, port, oactive, r, found;
 	int ca_only = 0;
 	SyslogFacility *log_facility_ptr;
@@ -2130,6 +2131,12 @@ process_server_config_line_depth(ServerOptions *options, char *line,
 			fatal("Include directive not supported as a "
 			    "command-line option");
 		}
+
+		if (gethostname(thishost, sizeof(thishost)) == -1)
+			fatal("gethostname: %s", strerror(errno));
+		strlcpy(shorthost, thishost, sizeof(shorthost));
+		shorthost[strcspn(thishost, ".")] = '\0';
+
 		value = 0;
 		while ((arg2 = argv_next(&ac, &av)) != NULL) {
 			if (*arg2 == '\0') {
@@ -2140,9 +2147,13 @@ process_server_config_line_depth(ServerOptions *options, char *line,
 			value++;
 			found = 0;
 			if (*arg2 != '/' && *arg2 != '~') {
-				xasprintf(&arg, "%s/%s", SSHDIR, arg2);
+				xasprintf(&arg_pre, "%s/%s", SSHDIR, arg2);
 			} else
-				arg = xstrdup(arg2);
+				arg_pre = xstrdup(arg2);
+
+			arg = percent_expand(arg_pre,
+					"l", thishost, "L", shorthost, (char *) NULL);
+			free(arg_pre);
 
 			/*
 			 * Don't let included files clobber the containing
-- 
2.42.1



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