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4f6716dc | 1 | This is the Unix port of OpenBSD's excellent OpenSSH. |
8efc0c15 | 2 | |
97784962 | 3 | OpenSSH is based on the last free version of Tatu Ylonen's SSH with |
4 | all patent-encumbered algorithms removed, all known security bugs | |
4ae1982f | 5 | fixed, new features reintroduced and many other clean-ups. More |
6 | information about SSH itself can be found in the file README.Ylonen. | |
0c16a097 | 7 | OpenSSH has been created by Aaron Campbell, Bob Beck, Markus Friedl, |
2bd61362 | 8 | Niels Provos, Theo de Raadt, and Dug Song. It has a homepage at |
9 | http://www.openssh.com/ | |
8efc0c15 | 10 | |
4f6716dc | 11 | This port consists of the re-introduction of autoconf support, PAM |
12 | support (for Linux and Solaris), EGD[1] support, and replacements for | |
13 | OpenBSD library functions that are (regrettably) absent from most | |
aa5cea8a | 14 | other unices. This patch has been best tested on Linux, though some |
15 | Solaris support is beginning to filter in. This version actively | |
4f6716dc | 16 | tracks changes in the OpenBSD CVS repository. |
8efc0c15 | 17 | |
97784962 | 18 | The PAM support is now more functional than the popular packages of |
19 | commercial ssh-1.2.x. It checks "account" and "session" modules for | |
4ae1982f | 20 | all logins, not just when using password authentication. |
8efc0c15 | 21 | |
97784962 | 22 | All new code is released under a XFree style license, which is very |
aa51e7cc | 23 | liberal. Please refer to the source files for details. The code in |
24 | strlcpy.c and mktemp.c is from the OpenBSD project and has its own | |
25 | license (again, see source file for details). | |
26 | ||
4f6716dc | 27 | OpenSSH depends on Zlib[2], OpenSSL[3] and optionally PAM[4]. To build |
4ae1982f | 28 | the GNOME[5] pass-phrase requester (--with-gnome-askpass), you will |
4f6716dc | 29 | need the GNOME libraries installed. If you are building OpenSSH on a |
30 | Unix which lacks a kernel random number pool (/dev/random), you will | |
31 | need to install EGD[1]. | |
aa51e7cc | 32 | |
4ae1982f | 33 | There is now a mailing list for this port of OpenSSH. To |
34 | subscribe, send a message consisting of the word 'SUBSCRIBE' to | |
35 | openssh-unix-dev-request@mindrot.org. This mailing list is intended | |
14a7628c | 36 | for developers who wish to improve on this port or extend it to other |
37 | Unices. | |
c6ab4a33 | 38 | |
8bc7973f | 39 | Please refer to the INSTALL document for information on how to install |
40 | OpenSSH on your system. | |
8efc0c15 | 41 | |
beb6e22d | 42 | This patch is developed primarily on Linux, but I am including patches |
4ae1982f | 43 | which improve compatability with other unices. The beginnings of |
44 | Solaris support have already been included. | |
45 | ||
97784962 | 46 | Damien Miller <djm@ibs.com.au> |
47 | Internet Business Solutions | |
8efc0c15 | 48 | |
97784962 | 49 | Credits - |
8efc0c15 | 50 | |
0c16a097 | 51 | Aaron Campbell, Bob Beck, Markus Friedl, Niels Provos, |
2bd61362 | 52 | Theo de Raadt, and Dug Song - Creators of OpenSSH |
97784962 | 53 | 'jonchen' - the original author of PAM support of SSH |
54 | Dan Brosemer <odin@linuxfreak.com> - Autoconf and build fixes & Debian scripts | |
97784962 | 55 | Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin.dahyabhai@pobox.com> - PAM environment patch |
d4f11b59 | 56 | Phil Hands <phil@hands.com> - Debian scripts, assorted patches |
3e807d1e | 57 | Niels Kristian Bech Jensen <nkbj@image.dk> - Assorted patches |
4ae1982f | 58 | Marc G. Fournier <marc.fournier@acadiau.ca> - Solaris patches |
b2344d54 | 59 | Thomas Neumann <tom@smart.ruhr.de> - Shadow passwords |
8c119fd0 | 60 | Jim Knoble <jmknoble@pobox.com> - RPM spec file fixes |
8efc0c15 | 61 | |
97784962 | 62 | Miscellania - |
8efc0c15 | 63 | |
97784962 | 64 | This version of SSH is based upon code retrieved from the OpenBSD CVS |
4f080ebe | 65 | repository on 1999-11-09 which in turn was based on the last free |
66 | version of SSH released by Tatu Ylonen. | |
8efc0c15 | 67 | |
4f080ebe | 68 | Code in helper.[ch] and gnome-ssh-askpass.c is Copyright 1999 |
69 | Internet Business Solutions and is released under a X11-style | |
70 | license (see source files for details). | |
8efc0c15 | 71 | |
97784962 | 72 | (A)RC4 code in rc4.[ch] is Copyright 1999 Damien Miller. It too is |
73 | under a X11-style license (see source file for details). | |
8efc0c15 | 74 | |
e1a9c08d | 75 | References - |
76 | ||
4f6716dc | 77 | [1] http://www.lothar.com/tech/crypto/ |
78 | [2] http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/zlib/ | |
79 | [3] http://www.openssl.org/ | |
80 | [4] http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/ (PAM is standard on Solaris) | |
81 | [5] http://www.gnome.org/ | |
4f080ebe | 82 |