Changing defaults in ssh

Koven · 07-01-2005, 09:15 AM

I want to change the defaults parameters from a source installation. I`ve installed openssh from source in debian with a patch for logging called sftplogging.

I had to install it with

./configure --prefix=/usr/local

but i didn't. Now it is installed but it doesn't create sftp logs and I tried to change the default sshd_config file but it didn't work and it's always searching for /etc/ssh/sshd_config and not the /usr/local/etc/sshd_config file (the one that creates logs) and I'm really confused because i don't want to uninstall (make uninstall) from a source code installation.

Thanks for your time

Regards

Mara · 07-01-2005, 04:17 PM

Start sshd with -f option. From man page:

Code:

-f configuration_file
             Specifies the name of the configuration file.  The default is
             /etc/ssh/sshd_config.  sshd refuses to start if there is no con-
             figuration file.

Koven · 07-01-2005, 04:55 PM

I did

#sshd_config -f /usr/local/etc/sshd_config

But nothing happens, when i restart the configuration it searches into /etc/ssh/sshd_config so I don't know what'd be wrong with this stuff.

Thanks in advance. Somehow if I remove the /etc/ssh/sshd_config and I restart ssh service it gives me an error because it doesn't find the sshd_config although I changed before with

sshd_config -f /us/local/etc/sshd_config command

Thank YOU

Mara · 07-03-2005, 03:15 PM

The command should be:
/usr/local/sbin/sshd -f /usr/local/etc/sshd_config
I don't think you have sshd_config command. The command copied by you looks incorrectly. Is there a correction needed?