OpenSSH questions (a port alongside Apple's install of OpenSSH)

Tabitha McNerney tabithamc at gmail.com
Mon Jul 7 07:14:41 PDT 2008


On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 3:44 AM, Daniel J. Luke <dluke at geeklair.net> wrote:

> On Jul 7, 2008, at 9:20 AM, Tabitha McNerney wrote:
>
>> Do most MacPorts users (who elect to port install openssh) end up hacking
>> Apple's ssh.plist to re-plumb with the version of ssh that ends up in the
>> MacPorts prefix?
>>
>
>
> You can just tell launchd to not use the Apple-provided plist/sshd and then
> enable the macports-provided plist (or write your own plist if you want).


Daniel, thank you. That's great advice and am glad to know others have done
this. Doesn't look to complicated but as always, its great to have community
discussion about these things (especially since security is such an
important topic).

Thanks,

T.M.


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