https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1529
Summary: Need a method to add new configuration options in a
backwards-compatible fashion (avoiding "Bad
configuration option")
Product: Portable OpenSSH
Version: 5.1p1
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P2
Component: Miscellaneous
AssignedTo: unassigned-bugs@mindrot.org
ReportedBy: nectar@apple.com
Currently the OpenSSH configuration options parser terminates when an
unknown configuration option is encountered. For example, OpenSSH
implementations without Simon Wilkinson's Kerberos support patch will
choke on user’s ssh_config files that contain Kerberos options. This
can be problematic for heterogenous environments, where configuration
files might be shared (e.g. network home directory).
Another example are new extensions. OpenSSH now has some
platform-independent keychain support (although the only implementation
is currently on Mac OS X). There is no option to disable that support
for certain hosts or globally. Such an option cannot be added without
making it impossible to share an ssh_config with older versions of
OpenSSH or platforms without keychain support.
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Summary: Need a method to add new configuration options in a
backwards-compatible fashion (avoiding "Bad
configuration option")
Product: Portable OpenSSH
Version: 5.1p1
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P2
Component: Miscellaneous
AssignedTo: unassigned-bugs@mindrot.org
ReportedBy: nectar@apple.com
Currently the OpenSSH configuration options parser terminates when an
unknown configuration option is encountered. For example, OpenSSH
implementations without Simon Wilkinson's Kerberos support patch will
choke on user’s ssh_config files that contain Kerberos options. This
can be problematic for heterogenous environments, where configuration
files might be shared (e.g. network home directory).
Another example are new extensions. OpenSSH now has some
platform-independent keychain support (although the only implementation
is currently on Mac OS X). There is no option to disable that support
for certain hosts or globally. Such an option cannot be added without
making it impossible to share an ssh_config with older versions of
OpenSSH or platforms without keychain support.
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