Bugzilla Bug 171812

Amanda should support ssh-security in addition to the default bsd-security.
Please add the configure options "--with-ssh-security --with-bsd-security
--with-amandahosts" in the amanda ebuild. Perhaps selectable by a USE-Flag.
I think if you add "--with-ssh-security" only, the default bsd-security does
not work any more.


Reproducible: Always




I tested the suggested configure options with the latest ebuild
app-backup/amanda-2.5.1_p3-r2 and it worked.

sgw: will adding "--with-ssh-security" really break it? any ways to not break
it? other changes to include at the same time?

According to Jean-Louis Martineau, the main maintainer of amanda,
"--with-ssh-security" should not break "--with-bsd-security" unless one
configures "--without-bsd-security".
"--with-bsd-security" is the default and not needed explicitly, additional
security mechanisms can be added as needed.
So we could add separate USE-flags for the diverse mechanisms, although this
leads to quite a big number of flags.
I don't have ideas for any additional changes to add at the same time, although
I might come up with some while doing the new ebuild.

I think it would be comfortable to create the ssh-key on the fly et cetera. I
am looking into that ...

ebuild with ssh-security up and running with one server and one client, took a
few additional steps (permissions) to get that running, seems related to the
environment due to the former /etc/env.d/ ... Looking forward ...

Patch from Stefan is now in the tree.
Users are still responsible for setting up their own SSH keys etc.