openssh postinstall / ssh-host-install bugs

Max Bowsher maxb@ukf.net
Wed Apr 16 13:57:00 GMT 2003


Bill C Riemers wrote:
> I notice openssh does not have a postinstall script.  It might be a good
idea
> to call ssh-host-install and ssh-user-install if /etc/sshd_config does not
> exist...

It is long standing Cygwin policy to not configure and install services
during postinstall.

The theory is that just because you installed a package, you don't
necessarily want the service running until you are happy with the
configuration.



Max.



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