From: Patrick Vogelaar <patrick.vogelaar.dev@mailbox.org>
To: patrick.vogelaar.dev@mailbox.org
Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org, paul@pbarker.dev
Subject: [PATCH v2] openssh: add variable for key path
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2026 10:15:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260125091540.8808-1-patrick.vogelaar.dev@mailbox.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260102112702.110486-1-patrick.vogelaar.dev@mailbox.org>
This patch adds a variable for the key directory path. This is especially
useful when working with a read-only file system where you want to
specify the location e.g. on a r/w partition. To be consistent, the
change was also done for the read write path.
For changing the path simply create a bbappend and override the
variable.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Vogelaar <patrick.vogelaar.dev@mailbox.org>
---
.../openssh/openssh_10.2p1.bb | 16 ++++++++++------
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh_10.2p1.bb b/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh_10.2p1.bb
index 866129573f..d8ea487ae3 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh_10.2p1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh_10.2p1.bb
@@ -99,6 +99,10 @@ CACHED_CONFIGUREVARS += "ac_cv_path_PATH_PASSWD_PROG=${bindir}/passwd"
# We don't want to depend on libblockfile
CACHED_CONFIGUREVARS += "ac_cv_header_maillock_h=no"
+# This allows overriding the key location
+OPENSSH_HOST_KEY_DIR_READONLY_CONFIG ?= "/var/run/ssh"
+OPENSSH_HOST_KEY_DIR ?= "/etc/ssh"
+
do_configure:prepend () {
export LD="${CC}"
install -m 0600 ${UNPACKDIR}/sshd_config ${B}/
@@ -113,24 +117,24 @@ sshd_hostkey_setup() {
# Enable specific ssh host keys
sed -i '/HostKey/d' ${D}${sysconfdir}/ssh/sshd_config
if ${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG','hostkey-rsa','true','false',d)}; then
- echo "HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key" >> ${D}${sysconfdir}/ssh/sshd_config
+ echo "HostKey ${OPENSSH_HOST_KEY_DIR}/ssh_host_rsa_key" >> ${D}${sysconfdir}/ssh/sshd_config
fi
if ${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG','hostkey-ecdsa','true','false',d)}; then
- echo "HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_key" >> ${D}${sysconfdir}/ssh/sshd_config
+ echo "HostKey ${OPENSSH_HOST_KEY_DIR}/ssh_host_ecdsa_key" >> ${D}${sysconfdir}/ssh/sshd_config
fi
if ${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG','hostkey-ed25519','true','false',d)}; then
- echo "HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key" >> ${D}${sysconfdir}/ssh/sshd_config
+ echo "HostKey ${OPENSSH_HOST_KEY_DIR}/ssh_host_ed25519_key" >> ${D}${sysconfdir}/ssh/sshd_config
fi
sed -i '/HostKey/d' ${D}${sysconfdir}/ssh/sshd_config_readonly
if ${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG','hostkey-rsa','true','false',d)}; then
- echo "HostKey /var/run/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key" >> ${D}${sysconfdir}/ssh/sshd_config_readonly
+ echo "HostKey ${OPENSSH_HOST_KEY_DIR_READONLY_CONFIG}/ssh_host_rsa_key" >> ${D}${sysconfdir}/ssh/sshd_config_readonly
fi
if ${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG','hostkey-ecdsa','true','false',d)}; then
- echo "HostKey /var/run/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_key" >> ${D}${sysconfdir}/ssh/sshd_config_readonly
+ echo "HostKey ${OPENSSH_HOST_KEY_DIR_READONLY_CONFIG}/ssh_host_ecdsa_key" >> ${D}${sysconfdir}/ssh/sshd_config_readonly
fi
if ${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG','hostkey-ed25519','true','false',d)}; then
- echo "HostKey /var/run/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key" >> ${D}${sysconfdir}/ssh/sshd_config_readonly
+ echo "HostKey ${OPENSSH_HOST_KEY_DIR_READONLY_CONFIG}/ssh_host_ed25519_key" >> ${D}${sysconfdir}/ssh/sshd_config_readonly
fi
}
--
2.43.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-01-25 9:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-01-02 11:27 [PATCH] openssh: add variable for key path Patrick Vogelaar
2026-01-08 14:00 ` [OE-core] " Paul Barker
2026-01-25 9:15 ` Patrick Vogelaar [this message]
2026-01-29 11:17 ` [OE-core] [PATCH v2] " Antonin Godard
2026-01-31 10:01 ` patrick.vogelaar.dev
2026-02-02 9:46 ` Antonin Godard
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