- Doc updates

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index eb94cf17d123c2c90d62b553270511e93a6b788e..bacd91f5ef1c13c3f2a1c2b360a03bc5d4b94efd 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
     [version.h]
     - OpenSSH-2.1
  - Moved all the bsd-* and fake-* stuff into new libopenbsd-compat.a
+ - Doc updates
 
 20000508
  - Makefile and RPM spec fixes

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 76b85d6d8369d39d6d62e285c6b145366c01d352..bf7bc13861ce60f9835b2a64e0a12197be5555eb 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -29,12 +29,8 @@ passphrase requester. This is maintained separately at:
 
 http://www.ntrnet.net/~jmknoble/software/x11-ssh-askpass/index.html
 
-If you are planning to use OpenSSH on a Unix which lacks a Kernel random
-number generator (/dev/urandom), you may want to install the Entropy
-Gathering Daemon (or similar). You will also need to specify the 
---with-egd-pool option to ./configure. OpenSSH 2.0 includes some 
-peliminary built-in randomness collection, but it is not as well 
-tested as EGD.
+The Entropy Gathering Daemon (EGD) is supported if you have a system which
+lacks /dev/random and don't want to use OpenSSH's internal entropy collection.
 
 EGD:
 http://www.lothar.com/tech/crypto/
@@ -98,10 +94,9 @@ random numbers (the default is /dev/urandom). Unless you are absolutly
 sure of what you are doing, it is best to leave this alone.
 
 --with-egd-pool=/some/file allows you to enable Entropy Gathering
-Daemon support and to specify a EGD pool socket. You may want to
-use this if your Unix does not support the /dev/urandom device (or
-similar). The file argument refers to the EGD pool file, not the 
-EGD program itself. Please refer to the EGD documentation.
+Daemon support and to specify a EGD pool socket. Use this if your
+Unix lacks /dev/random and you don't want to use OpenSSH's builtin
+entropy collection support.
 
 --with-lastlog=FILE will specify the location of the lastlog file. 
 ./configure searches a few locations for lastlog, but may not find

diff --git a/README b/README
index eaacfc542a90965a995f446947a3cd8b646e06b2..16fc3651e932aefafb8d19c63973979ff31da227 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -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