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06479889 | 1 | This is the port of OpenBSD's excellent OpenSSH to Linux and other |
2 | Unices. | |
8efc0c15 | 3 | |
97784962 | 4 | OpenSSH is based on the last free version of Tatu Ylonen's SSH with |
5 | all patent-encumbered algorithms removed, all known security bugs | |
4ae1982f | 6 | fixed, new features reintroduced and many other clean-ups. More |
7 | information about SSH itself can be found in the file README.Ylonen. | |
0c16a097 | 8 | OpenSSH has been created by Aaron Campbell, Bob Beck, Markus Friedl, |
2bd61362 | 9 | Niels Provos, Theo de Raadt, and Dug Song. It has a homepage at |
10 | http://www.openssh.com/ | |
8efc0c15 | 11 | |
4f6716dc | 12 | This port consists of the re-introduction of autoconf support, PAM |
beb43d31 | 13 | support (for Linux and Solaris), EGD[1] support, and replacements |
14 | for OpenBSD library functions that are (regrettably) absent from | |
d94aa2ae | 15 | other unices. This port has been best tested on Linux, Solaris and |
16 | HPUX, though support for AIX and Irix is underway. This version | |
0bc5b6fb | 17 | actively tracks changes in the OpenBSD CVS repository. This port |
18 | also has optional support for using the Dante SOCKS library[6], | |
19 | version 1.1.1pre1 or later. | |
8efc0c15 | 20 | |
97784962 | 21 | The PAM support is now more functional than the popular packages of |
22 | commercial ssh-1.2.x. It checks "account" and "session" modules for | |
4ae1982f | 23 | all logins, not just when using password authentication. |
8efc0c15 | 24 | |
97784962 | 25 | All new code is released under a XFree style license, which is very |
aa51e7cc | 26 | liberal. Please refer to the source files for details. The code in |
beb43d31 | 27 | bsd-*.[ch] is from the OpenBSD project and has its own license (again, |
28 | see the source files for details). | |
aa51e7cc | 29 | |
0bc5b6fb | 30 | OpenSSH depends on Zlib[2], OpenSSL[3] and optionally PAM[4] and |
31 | Dante[6]. To build the GNOME[5] pass-phrase requester | |
32 | (--with-gnome-askpass), you will need the GNOME libraries installed. | |
33 | If you are building OpenSSH on a Unix which lacks a kernel random | |
34 | number pool (/dev/random), you will need to install EGD[1]. | |
aa51e7cc | 35 | |
4ae1982f | 36 | There is now a mailing list for this port of OpenSSH. To |
37 | subscribe, send a message consisting of the word 'SUBSCRIBE' to | |
38 | openssh-unix-dev-request@mindrot.org. This mailing list is intended | |
14a7628c | 39 | for developers who wish to improve on this port or extend it to other |
40 | Unices. | |
c6ab4a33 | 41 | |
7303768f | 42 | Please send bug reports to the mailing list, or to myself |
43 | (djm@ibs.com.au). | |
44 | ||
8bc7973f | 45 | Please refer to the INSTALL document for information on how to install |
46 | OpenSSH on your system. | |
8efc0c15 | 47 | |
beb6e22d | 48 | This patch is developed primarily on Linux, but I am including patches |
4ae1982f | 49 | which improve compatability with other unices. The beginnings of |
50 | Solaris support have already been included. | |
51 | ||
97784962 | 52 | Damien Miller <djm@ibs.com.au> |
53 | Internet Business Solutions | |
8efc0c15 | 54 | |
8efc0c15 | 55 | |
97784962 | 56 | Miscellania - |
8efc0c15 | 57 | |
97784962 | 58 | This version of SSH is based upon code retrieved from the OpenBSD CVS |
4f080ebe | 59 | repository on 1999-11-09 which in turn was based on the last free |
60 | version of SSH released by Tatu Ylonen. | |
8efc0c15 | 61 | |
5ab44a92 | 62 | Code in bsd-misc.[ch] and gnome-ssh-askpass.c is Copyright 1999 |
4f080ebe | 63 | Internet Business Solutions and is released under a X11-style |
64 | license (see source files for details). | |
8efc0c15 | 65 | |
97784962 | 66 | (A)RC4 code in rc4.[ch] is Copyright 1999 Damien Miller. It too is |
67 | under a X11-style license (see source file for details). | |
8efc0c15 | 68 | |
e1a9c08d | 69 | References - |
70 | ||
4f6716dc | 71 | [1] http://www.lothar.com/tech/crypto/ |
72 | [2] http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/zlib/ | |
73 | [3] http://www.openssl.org/ | |
74 | [4] http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/ (PAM is standard on Solaris) | |
75 | [5] http://www.gnome.org/ | |
0bc5b6fb | 76 | [6] http://www.inet.no/dante |
4f080ebe | 77 |