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diff --git a/doc/bugs/configuration_options_for_system_ssh_and_bundled_ssh_are_incompatible/comment_1_abdd5622dc1733a8b59dc11885083799._comment b/doc/bugs/configuration_options_for_system_ssh_and_bundled_ssh_are_incompatible/comment_1_abdd5622dc1733a8b59dc11885083799._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..2024b296f --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/configuration_options_for_system_ssh_and_bundled_ssh_are_incompatible/comment_1_abdd5622dc1733a8b59dc11885083799._comment @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="joey" + subject="""comment 1""" + date="2017-03-02T21:30:55Z" + content=""" +One way to deal with this would be to put the bundled ssh in the +git-annex.linux/extra/ directory. Programs in that directory are added to the +end of the path, so that system versions will be preferred when available. + +That was earlier done for gpg and didn't cause any problems. + +There is the potential for some sort of versioning problem. Currently the +only thing git-annex probes about the bundled ssh is if it supports +connection caching. That's quite an old feature by now, so a system ssh not +supporting it would either be super out of date and insecure openssh, or +perhaps some other ssh implementation. + +Seems worth moving the bundled ssh to the extra directory, and see what +breaks.. +"""]] |