Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 01:01:26 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Mike Thompson <miket@dnai.com> Cc: Gary Gaskell <gaskell@isrc.qut.edu.au>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kerberos vs SSH Message-ID: <199903250901.BAA95914@apollo.backplane.com> References: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9903251409300.17330-100000@primrose.isrc.qut.edu.au> <4.1.19990324233231.00a02e40@mail.dnai.com>
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:Matthew,
:
:Thanks for the detailed response. It sounds like BEST has a
:configuration that is close to what I would like to achieve.
:A few quick questions if you don't mind:
:
:Are you refering to SSH v1 or SSH v2, or do both compile
:with Kerberos in the manner you describe?
:
:I am currently looking into what the licensing costs would be
:for us to license SSH v2 for our servers. Does BEST.COM pay
:to license SSH v1 or SSH v2 for internal use?
:
:I set up a Kerberos IV server and it is very unfriendly, but
:possible. I'll investigate Kerberos V in the ports. By using
:Kerberos I assume it gives you the advantage of configuring
:all ssh authentication and passwords on the Kerberos server?
:
:Thanks again,
:
:Mike Thompson
BEST currently uses SSH v1 under the ISP terms in the COPYING notice.
We've looked into using SSH v2 a number of times but two factors have
kept us from being able to switch: (1) the fact that the author made
SSH v2 incompatible with SSH v1, and (2) because, when we checked, the
licensing terms were too overpriced ( but that was a year ago and I don't
remember what the price was ). So we aren't using v2.
The whole thing has really miffed me, actually. I like to support
free software, especially free software of the quality level and
usefullness of ssh, but the authors have made it rather difficult to do.
I haven't checked the status of SSH v2 recently, so it is possible that
commercial licensing is more doable now.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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