running ports openssh instead of the base

Bob Goodman goodman at mac.hush.com
Sun Mar 26 04:12:30 UTC 2006


Sorry for double-posting, somehow I forgot to include the subject 
line.

> Hi there,
>
> If I want to use the openssh from ports to replace the one from
the base,
> after building and installing it, so I need to do anything
special in rc.conf
> to specify that I'd like that one run instead of sshd from the
base?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>

You will probably prefer to use security/openssh-portable.
That port is more recent if I understand correctly,
and is capable of replacing the base ssh automatically,
thus making  it unnecessary to bug with rc.conf.
"make config" will list the options.
Hope this helps.

Bob Goodman




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