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| author | Damien Miller <djm@mindrot.org> | 2000-05-09 15:03:37 +1000 |
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| committer | Damien Miller <djm@mindrot.org> | 2000-05-09 15:03:37 +1000 |
| commit | 54057c2b9be4270b20db004c76851b04cf299620 (patch) | |
| tree | e6bd752504811d3873ba16bc432ab91ecd65cb3e /README | |
| parent | 0e963ef3c5ce28a5b47395569858a90a4e7a1e87 (diff) | |
| download | openssh-git-54057c2b9be4270b20db004c76851b04cf299620.tar.gz | |
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@@ -3,11 +3,11 @@ [ Thanks to HARUYAMA Seigo <haruyama@nt.phys.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> ******* IMPORTANT -* On systmes which lack a /dev/random driver, this port of -* OpenSSH-1.2.2 was not correctly seeding OpenSSL's random number +* On systmes which lack a /dev/random driver, version of this port +* prior to 1.2.2 were not correctly seeding OpenSSL's random number * pool. This resulted in lower quality RSA keys being generated. If -* you generated host or user keys with v1.2.2, please generate new -* ones using a more recent version. +* you generated host or user keys with v1.2.2 or previous versions, +* please generate new ones using a more recent version. This is the port of OpenBSD's excellent OpenSSH to Linux and other Unices. @@ -21,20 +21,17 @@ Markus Friedl, Niels Provos, Theo de Raadt, and Dug Song. It has a homepage at http://www.openssh.com/ This port consists of the re-introduction of autoconf support, PAM -support (for Linux and Solaris), EGD[1] support, SOCKS support (using -the Dante [6] libraries and replacements for OpenBSD library functions -that are (regrettably) absent from other unices. This port has been -best tested on Linux, Solaris, HPUX, NetBSD and Irix. Support for AIX, -SCO, NeXT and other Unices is underway. This version actively tracks -changes in the OpenBSD CVS repository. +support (for Linux and Solaris), EGD[1] support and replacements for +OpenBSD library functions that are (regrettably) absent from other +unices. This port has been best tested on Linux, Solaris, HPUX, NetBSD +and Irix. Support for AIX, SCO, NeXT and other Unices is underway. +This version actively tracks changes in the OpenBSD CVS repository. The PAM support is now more functional than the popular packages of commercial ssh-1.2.x. It checks "account" and "session" modules for all logins, not just when using password authentication. -OpenSSH depends on Zlib[2], OpenSSL[3] and optionally PAM[4] and -Dante[6]. To build the GNOME[5] pass-phrase requester -(--with-gnome-askpass), you will need the GNOME libraries installed. +OpenSSH depends on Zlib[2], OpenSSL[3] and optionally PAM[4]. There is now several mailing lists for this port of OpenSSH. Please refer to http://violet.ibs.com.au/openssh/list.html for details on how @@ -63,6 +60,4 @@ References - [2] http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/zlib/ [3] http://www.openssl.org/ [4] http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/ (PAM is standard on Solaris) -[5] http://www.gnome.org/ -[6] http://www.inet.no/dante |