Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 23:46:33 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_K=F6nig?= <bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de> To: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <danm@prime.gushi.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bundled openssh version Message-ID: <42B5E7B9.70309@cs.tu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <20050619123123.B59187@prime.gushi.org> References: <20050619123123.B59187@prime.gushi.org>
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Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > Is freeBSD ever going to update the "contributed" version of openssh to > something more recent? Yes. Currently OpenSSH 4.1p1 is part of 6-CURRENT developent branch. An update in 5-STABLE may happen, but not regulary and not definitely. I strongly believe that 3.5p1 of 4-STABLE will remain forever. > I'm particularly interested in the DNS SSHFP support, It should work with OpenSSH of the base system as far as I know. > and I'm unsure of the differences between the "base" version, > the one in ports, and the "portable" version in ports, as far as what > functionality I would gain/lose. The OpenBSD team develops OpenSSH for their operating system. Since this piece of software won't run on other systems without huge patches they offer a portable version of OpenSSH. I don't know the differences in detail, because I neither use OpenSSH in that excessive manner nor OpenBSD. A slightly changed portable OpenSSH 3.8.1p1 comes along with the FreeBSD base system. The "p" indicates that this is the portable version. You'll find a list of these small changes in /usr/src/crypto/openssh/FREEBSD-upgrade[1]. The port security/openssh-portable is the most recent OpenSSH 4.1p1. If you want to know the FreeBSD-specific changes then the patches in /usr/ports/security/openssh-portable/files/ might be helpful. security/openssh is a patched OpenSSH 3.6.1 of the non-portable version; I think this port falled asleep. The Changelog[2] gives hints about the functionality that you will gain with a newer version. I'm not sure, but I guess you lose almost nothing if you choose the latest. [1] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/crypto/openssh/ [2] ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/OpenSSH/portable/ChangeLog Regards Björn
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