[scponly] Re: patches for freebsd

[joe]

thanks for the patches, i recently went through the exact same port, but
i'm a naughty maintainer and i didnt release the new version yet.

i'll incorporate your patch and release soon.

joe

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On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Adam J. wrote:

> I recently setup scponly to work chrooted within openbsd (3.2). After
> this I attempted to get it to work on a freebsd machine (4.7). This
> however seemed to fail, as did the port of scponly-3.4.
>
> I've sent an update for the port to freebsd including the new version
> (3.5), as well as the patches attached. There's one other tiny patch
> involving chown (using ':' instead of '.'), but that's really dependent
> on the chown version, so it hasn't been attached.
>
> In any event, the problem likely wasn't discovered because scponly works
> great, but scponlyc can't really be configured for freebsd, at least in
> its default install. The setup_chroot script relies upon the presence of
> useradd, which does not exist in freebsd. A close alternative is pw.
> Thus, the patches for configure and configure.in look for the program
> "pw" as an alternate.
>
> setup_chroot.in has been modified so that it looks not only for ld.so
> and ld-linux.so, but also for the freebsd "version" of them ld-elf.so.
> Also, it has been changed so that if useradd does not exist but pw does,
> it will use pw. I also changed the functions so that they worked in the
> default version of sh in freebsd (which should also work on others), but
> that's a change you might want to leave out.
>
> Hopefully you'll consider including these in the next version of
> scponly, as it should increase compatibility across platforms. But
> otherwise, it's still a great shell. Thanks a lot.
>
> Adam
>