From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 10 15:11:44 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BC3516A40F for ; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 15:11:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from heli@mikestammer.com) Received: from smtp103.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com (smtp103.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.198.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C69DD43D4C for ; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 15:11:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from heli@mikestammer.com) Received: (qmail 73282 invoked from network); 10 Nov 2006 15:11:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.mikestammer.com) (mikestammer@sbcglobal.net@70.131.98.204 with login) by smtp103.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 10 Nov 2006 15:11:42 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: geLxyp8VM1nN4ewaB1WRTMVfC1XL6Yc2Xj_DKIIMcOuH4eU7cM2HQZ.BVznMP6tSVe8gRXR.01SzYHUVUGT7jLq7D8c_P_PZ.oH2A1bZ14N1IsVT_k485ZBDK2CLPkykIocjI_KtK8b6ct0UQKfkCGtHqY4ItcJ7.Cs- Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mikestammer.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D2F21147D; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 09:11:41 -0600 (CST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mikestammer.com Received: from mail.mikestammer.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (gondolin.middleearth.mikestammer.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id R4wPCTaTtRfp; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 09:11:38 -0600 (CST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: eric) by mail.mikestammer.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 835FB1147F; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 09:11:36 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <455496A6.2080306@mikestammer.com> Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 09:11:34 -0600 From: Eric User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lowell Gilbert References: <45520224.4050002@mikestammer.com> <44bqnfe4hs.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <44bqnfe4hs.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NO_OPENSSL= true? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 15:11:44 -0000 Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Eric writes: > >> No bites on this yesterday. can anyone shed some light on it? > > Most of us assume that one would only use non-standard security > configurations if one *really* knew exactly what one was doing... > >> is this something i should or shouldnt have in my make.conf? >> >> I use openssh-portable-4.4.p1 on my machines and cannot recall when >> NO_OPENSSL= true was added to make.conf. >> >> is this something I should keep in my make.conf? what are the >> implications if i keep it vs removing it? > > Are you getting SSL from a port? If not, you should remove it to get > updates to the base system version. [SSH uses SSL, but doesn't > include its own version; it uses the base or ports version, as > directed by some port makefile logic that I haven't looked through > very carefully.] > thanks for the reply. i have cleaned up the entry for it. again, i dont recall how it ever got there. I use openssh-portable, but everything else is from the base system. maybe it was an artifact from the 5.x days when I did run openssl from the ports tree. Eric