sshd on FBSD 8.0-RC2/3

[Dmitry Pryanishnikov]

2009/12/6 Peter Beckman <beckman at angryox.com>:
> On Sun, 6 Dec 2009, Dmitry Pryanishnikov wrote:
>> *   LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>> *   rpath in the referencing file
>> *   ldconfig hints
>> *   /lib:/usr/lib
>> */
>>
>> Looks like 'libssl.so.6 => /usr/local/lib/libssl.so.6' is set via
>> rpath - it overrides standard hints path
>> '/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/lib/compat:/usr/local/lib...' but still can be
>> overridden by LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
>
>  You. Are. The. Man.  I really appreciate you taking the time to dig that
>  up.  I hope it will help someone else in the future also getting confused
>  with why one library is being used over another.  Thanks!!!

 You are welcome. Yet I don't understand why these library references
aren't just contain absolute library paths - instead of all this path
traversing magic. That would be much more secure and less
error-prone...


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Sincerely, Dmitry
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