From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 17 15:42:24 2004 Return-Path: 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 B522F16A4CE for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 15:42:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from p15140542.pureserver.info (papendorf-se.de [217.160.222.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6309943D45 for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 15:42:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@nagilum.org) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by p15140542.pureserver.info (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0603C2F4117; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 17:41:51 +0200 (CEST) Received: from p15140542.pureserver.info ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (p15140542 [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 22209-04; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 17:41:50 +0200 (CEST) Received: from cakebox.homeunix.net (stgt-d9bb3fb6.pool.mediaWays.net [217.187.63.182]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by p15140542.pureserver.info (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE9962F405B; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 17:41:49 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cakebox.homeunix.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B87993F9D62; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 17:41:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: from cakebox.homeunix.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (cakebox.tis [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 38174-08; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 17:41:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: from nagilum.org (scorpio.tis [10.1.1.4]) by cakebox.homeunix.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F1A23F9D49; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 17:41:23 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <40D1BBB6.8090504@nagilum.org> Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 17:41:42 +0200 From: Nagilum User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.5.1) Gecko/20031120 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ecrist@secure-computing.net References: <200406161814.49129.ecrist@secure-computing.net> In-Reply-To: <200406161814.49129.ecrist@secure-computing.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at cakebox.homeunix.net X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at papendorf-se.de cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading openssh X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 15:42:24 -0000 Hi Eric, The base version of openssh is updated frequently (especially if any vulnerabilities are discovered), so why bother with the port? Kind regards, Alex. Eric Crist wrote: >After figuring out perl (with the help of Matthew, I was wondering what the >proper way to install/upgrade openssh. I assume it's to install from ports, >and somehow disable the installed, system version. > >What's the proper method? > > >