From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Sep 6 11:24:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from lexicon.ins.com (ns1.ins.com [199.0.193.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB77C159E9 for ; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 11:24:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pepin_j@ins.com) Received: from pepinj (exodus.ins.com [199.0.193.215]) by lexicon.ins.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA10927 for ; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 11:21:37 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: From: "Joe Pepin" To: Subject: Where to find comprehensive SSH and STABLE info? Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 14:11:03 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello, everyone. I have fallen head over heels for FreeBSD, and would like to make my new home server very secure so that I can get a 24x7 fast connection (which has been ordered, whoo-hoo) to my home and remotely use my home network securely from my roving laptop (which I am building FreeBSD w/ PAO on today to replace Red Hat Linux, FreeBSD replaced Debian on my home server, and I have worked with Digital Unix, and Solaris, and SCO). QUESTION 1: I am looking to get ssh (or ssh2) fully implemented on my new FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE (from cds) machine. (I have only a very slow network connection (28.8) at the moment so I download as little as possible.) I have grabbed the distfiles for the ssh, ssh2 and rsaref ports. I understand there are lots of technical, and legal issues regarding this software. I would like to legally get this stuff working in as hardened a mode as possible, with all the bells and whistles. Where can I go to find out everything, in a relatively clear format? I have the ssh FAQ, but it is a FAQ, I am looking for something along the lines of a book maybe, or a book-like-substance. If I need to compile ssh against another library, I am willing to learn how to do that under FreeBSD, but I need to know for sure that that is what I need to do (and would love to also be pointed at how to go about that, my programming expertise is not C, I'm a scripter). I would like to use as much free software as possible, but am not averse to purchasing a product (or a license, or whatever) if I can afford it and it will fit my needs, and I can trust that the NSA doesn't have a built in backdoor ;). QUESTION 2: Where can I go to find out exactly what I need to do to upgrade 3.2-RELEASE to 3.2-STABLE? I would like very much to use the RAID-5 vinum, and would like to start learning how to track. The problem is, my only network access is not only slow, but from a win modem, so I will need to grab whatever I need without CVS, right? If that kind of thing is covered somewhere, that's what I'm looking for. I greatly appreciate any help you can give me. I have already found this to be a helpful and respectful community, yet another good reason for my switch. TIA Joe Pepin ~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= Joe Pepin Network Systems Engineer International Network Services "The knowledge behind the network." http://www.ins.com/ The above views do not necessarily reflect those of my employer, but they probably should. ~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message