[MacPorts] #27255: autossh defaults to using /usr/bin/ssh even with macports ssh installed

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#27255: autossh defaults to using /usr/bin/ssh even with macports ssh installed
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 Reporter:  chiggsy@…           |       Owner:  macports-tickets@…                   
     Type:  defect              |      Status:  new                                  
 Priority:  Normal              |   Milestone:                                       
Component:  ports               |     Version:  1.9.2                                
 Keywords:                      |        Port:  autossh                              
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Comment(by chiggsy@…):

 > Daniel and Rainer raised some objections to this in
 [http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-
 users/2010-November/022585.html the mailing list discussion] that prompted
 the filing of this ticket.

 I can check that discussion but the fact remains that autossh, as
 currently offered by macports, defaults to an ssh program outside of the
 macports tree.  /usr/bin/ssh looks to /etc for it's configuration, not
 /opt/local/etc. That's really  an issue:  You install openssh, you
 configure it, in /opt/local/etc , since after all, macports is advertised
 to only look in /opt/local,  you run it autossh, and instead of using the
 updated, patched version of openssh you most likely installed openssh to
 get, you are using whatever version Apple bothered to release.  I simply
 need to bring up the 2 year delay in patching BIND, or the recent drive by
 PDF bug that made jailbreaking so easy, to raise valid concerns about
 commercial vendors patching speed.

 IMO ssh is a key tool, and if nothing else, it should be advertised that
 macports will , oddly , and silently, default to an unexpected program,
 while using the most standard way to achieve a secure shell.  All the man
 pages for the programs involved are from /opt/local . What clue would I
 have that /usr/bin/ssh would be run?

 My mistake, strings /opt/local/bin/autossh shows /usr/bin/ssh.

  Any user, reading the documentation, would assume that /opt/local was the
 default tree.  I maintain that

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/27255#comment:2>
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