From owner-freebsd-security Thu Oct 14 11:13: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from jacuzzi.local.mindstep.com (modemcable156.106-200-24.mtl.mc.videotron.net [24.200.106.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 83C4C14F8B for ; Thu, 14 Oct 1999 11:12:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from patrick@mindstep.com) Received: (qmail 6397 invoked from network); 14 Oct 1999 18:12:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO patrak) (192.168.10.25) by jacuzzi.local.mindstep.com with SMTP; 14 Oct 1999 18:12:57 -0000 Message-ID: <012201bf166f$bdf38fa0$190aa8c0@local.mindstep.com> From: "Patrick Bihan-Faou" To: "Ollivier Robert" , References: <19991012220217.A14906@futuresouth.com> <19991014191148.A70611@keltia.freenix.fr> Subject: Re: FreeSSH Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 14:12:57 -0400 Organization: MindStep Corporation MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, From: Ollivier Robert : > According to Bjoern Groenvall: > > If you are willing to run configure and make why don't you just fetch > > ftp://ftp.pdc.kth.se/pub/krypto/ossh/ossh-1.2.17.tar.gz? OSSH has no > > restrictions on use (if you're not in the US) and builds straight out > > The main problem is that this code base is *OLD* (1995) and a lot of things > have been fixed (not only buffer overflows but protocol problems) since this > version. > > I see backporting all the modifications from 1.2.27 as a non trivial task and > maybe not worth the big effort when you can install the latest with the > port... Except maybe for the license. If I remember correctly you can't use the newer versions of ssh for free if you use it for commercial reasons. Patrick. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message