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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 | |
15 | other unices. This port has been best tested on Linux, though some | |
aa5cea8a | 16 | Solaris support is beginning to filter in. This version actively |
4f6716dc | 17 | tracks changes in the OpenBSD CVS repository. |
8efc0c15 | 18 | |
97784962 | 19 | The PAM support is now more functional than the popular packages of |
20 | commercial ssh-1.2.x. It checks "account" and "session" modules for | |
4ae1982f | 21 | all logins, not just when using password authentication. |
8efc0c15 | 22 | |
97784962 | 23 | All new code is released under a XFree style license, which is very |
aa51e7cc | 24 | liberal. Please refer to the source files for details. The code in |
beb43d31 | 25 | bsd-*.[ch] is from the OpenBSD project and has its own license (again, |
26 | see the source files for details). | |
aa51e7cc | 27 | |
4f6716dc | 28 | OpenSSH depends on Zlib[2], OpenSSL[3] and optionally PAM[4]. To build |
4ae1982f | 29 | the GNOME[5] pass-phrase requester (--with-gnome-askpass), you will |
4f6716dc | 30 | need the GNOME libraries installed. If you are building OpenSSH on a |
31 | Unix which lacks a kernel random number pool (/dev/random), you will | |
32 | need to install EGD[1]. | |
aa51e7cc | 33 | |
4ae1982f | 34 | There is now a mailing list for this port of OpenSSH. To |
35 | subscribe, send a message consisting of the word 'SUBSCRIBE' to | |
36 | openssh-unix-dev-request@mindrot.org. This mailing list is intended | |
14a7628c | 37 | for developers who wish to improve on this port or extend it to other |
38 | Unices. | |
c6ab4a33 | 39 | |
8bc7973f | 40 | Please refer to the INSTALL document for information on how to install |
41 | OpenSSH on your system. | |
8efc0c15 | 42 | |
beb6e22d | 43 | This patch is developed primarily on Linux, but I am including patches |
4ae1982f | 44 | which improve compatability with other unices. The beginnings of |
45 | Solaris support have already been included. | |
46 | ||
97784962 | 47 | Damien Miller <djm@ibs.com.au> |
48 | Internet Business Solutions | |
8efc0c15 | 49 | |
97784962 | 50 | Credits - |
8efc0c15 | 51 | |
0c16a097 | 52 | Aaron Campbell, Bob Beck, Markus Friedl, Niels Provos, |
2bd61362 | 53 | Theo de Raadt, and Dug Song - Creators of OpenSSH |
97784962 | 54 | 'jonchen' - the original author of PAM support of SSH |
beb43d31 | 55 | Chip Salzenberg <chip@valinux.com> - Assorted patches |
97784962 | 56 | Dan Brosemer <odin@linuxfreak.com> - Autoconf and build fixes & Debian scripts |
beb43d31 | 57 | Jim Knoble <jmknoble@pobox.com> - RPM spec file fixes |
58 | Marc G. Fournier <marc.fournier@acadiau.ca> - Solaris patches | |
97784962 | 59 | Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin.dahyabhai@pobox.com> - PAM environment patch |
3e807d1e | 60 | Niels Kristian Bech Jensen <nkbj@image.dk> - Assorted patches |
beb43d31 | 61 | Phil Hands <phil@hands.com> - Debian scripts, assorted patches |
b2344d54 | 62 | Thomas Neumann <tom@smart.ruhr.de> - Shadow passwords |
721c55f0 | 63 | Tudor Bosman <tudorb@jm.nu> - MD5 password support |
8efc0c15 | 64 | |
97784962 | 65 | Miscellania - |
8efc0c15 | 66 | |
97784962 | 67 | This version of SSH is based upon code retrieved from the OpenBSD CVS |
4f080ebe | 68 | repository on 1999-11-09 which in turn was based on the last free |
69 | version of SSH released by Tatu Ylonen. | |
8efc0c15 | 70 | |
4f080ebe | 71 | Code in helper.[ch] and gnome-ssh-askpass.c is Copyright 1999 |
72 | Internet Business Solutions and is released under a X11-style | |
73 | license (see source files for details). | |
8efc0c15 | 74 | |
97784962 | 75 | (A)RC4 code in rc4.[ch] is Copyright 1999 Damien Miller. It too is |
76 | under a X11-style license (see source file for details). | |
8efc0c15 | 77 | |
e1a9c08d | 78 | References - |
79 | ||
4f6716dc | 80 | [1] http://www.lothar.com/tech/crypto/ |
81 | [2] http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/zlib/ | |
82 | [3] http://www.openssl.org/ | |
83 | [4] http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/ (PAM is standard on Solaris) | |
84 | [5] http://www.gnome.org/ | |
4f080ebe | 85 |