On Fri, 2 Feb 2024, 90 wrote: > Since I can't help but feel like my previous email is already being flat-out ignored, I would just like to reiterate: > > - I am not asking for ~/.ssh to stop being used. > - I am happy to contribute this myself with the blessing of the devs. > > All I would like is to be able to move files within ~/.ssh to their appropriate XDG paths and have OpenSSH continue to find these files without me needing to explicitly configure it to do so with either command options or root access for sshd. I would think this is a perfectly reasonable alternative to ask for, especially if the requirement is to prioritise the legacy ~/.ssh path for backwards compatibility. > > Would this please at least be taken into consideration? Thank you. No, sorry. This has been discussed extensively before, leading to the most uncivil discussion our bugtracker has ever seen and the only permanent user bans I've ever had to implement. Myself and the other developers have zero desire to relitigate this and no intention of implementing it. TLDR in case you can't find the past discssion: ssh is not a desktop program and predates the XDG specifications by two decades. Adding additional configuration paths is confusing and potentially risky for .ssh as, quite unlike usual "desktop" apps, it *grants system access* and having its configuration smeared across several possible paths makes managing this more confusing and brittle. -d _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev
