Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Tue, 19 Mar 2002 14:11:55 -0600 (CST)
From:      Guy Helmer <ghelmer@palisadesys.com>
To:        "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>
Cc:        <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/secure/usr.sbin/sshd Makefile
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.33.0203191356520.12151-100000@magellan.palisadesys.com>
In-Reply-To: <018101c1cf7f$86f601b0$d800a8c0@dwcjr>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote:

> > > Basically the portable would require less hacking to run on freebsd.
> They
> > > are Both from OpenBSD so there shouldn't be any disadvantage.
> >
> > The "portable" openssh contains extra code to support other non-BSD O/S's.
> > To me, this implies the portable openssh contains code we don't need and
> > it may have security implications.  I see this as a disadvantage.
>
> You could also argue that it also contains extra code for other BSD O/S's
> that OpenBSD does not need.

OK.  I was under the assumption that the portable openssh has lots of
special cases for other UN*X-ish systems that don't really look like a
*BSD.  I can't complain if the portable openssh is a better fit to FreeBSD
than OpenBSD's openssh.

Guy



To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.LNX.4.33.0203191356520.12151-100000>