OpenSSH-3.4p1-2 bug in ssh-host-config

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 12:11:27PM -0700, Marc Bejarano wrote:
> line 11 of ssh-host-config is:
> SYSCONFDIR=/etc
> 
> line 571 is:
> chown system /${SYSCONFDIR}/ssh*
> 
> the extra leading / doesn't work on my system:
> ==
> [beej@beej-lap]~:{506}:$ ls //etc/ssh*
> ls: //etc/ssh*: No such file or directory
> [beej@beej-lap]~:{507}:$ ls /etc/ssh*
> /etc/ssh_config            /etc/ssh_host_key          /etc/sshd_config
> /etc/ssh_config.orig       /etc/ssh_host_key.pub      /etc/sshd_config.orig
> /etc/ssh_host_dsa_key      /etc/ssh_host_rsa_key
> /etc/ssh_host_dsa_key.pub  /etc/ssh_host_rsa_key.pub
> ==
> an extra slash doesn't seem to bother other unixen.  is this a cygwin bug, 
> as well?

It's a Winodw'ism.  We don't want to disallow //server/share
paths so it's necessary not to filter them out but to give
them to the underlying OS as \\server\share.

Thanks for the hint, I'll fix it,
Corinna

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