On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 03:12:11AM -0400, Nick Guenther wrote:
> Just looking through the manpages and I noticed that SSH-related
> things don't seem to fit in with the system. For example, there is
> ssh_config(5) instead of ssh.conf and sftp-server instead of sftpd.
>
> Why is this? Is this a historical curiosity from the original SSH, or
> does it have something to do with portability, or what?
Since OpenSSH was developed on, for, and by the OpenBSD project, if
anyone is doing it wrong, it's the rest of the world. ;-)
This, in fact, does explain some of the differences. (Most of) the rest of
the world uses portable OpenSSH, which has some added options (dealing
with PAM, for instance), and possibly some different defaults.
Joachim
