From owner-freebsd-security Wed Jul 29 10:41:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA10792 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 10:41:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA10754 for ; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 10:41:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA28972; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 11:40:49 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id LAA27824; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 11:40:47 -0600 Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 11:40:47 -0600 Message-Id: <199807291740.LAA27824@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: sthaug@nethelp.no Cc: nate@mt.sri.com, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Security How-To (Was: QPopper exploit) In-Reply-To: <2791.901733838@verdi.nethelp.no> References: <199807291532.JAA26878@mt.sri.com> <2791.901733838@verdi.nethelp.no> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > For a 30 day trial copy, go to www.datafellows.com and hed to their > > > download section. You can get a m$ copy of ssh client there. > > > > We bought a half dozen of these, and all I can say is they're buggier > > than snot. Compression doesn't work if turned on, it hogs all the CPU > > on the machine (but does nothing) much of the time, and crashes the box > > occasionally. > > Different experiences, evidently. We have several users here who use the > Windows version all the time, and they seem happy enough. Tunnelling pop3 > through ssh works on the windows client too... Try using the client with something bigger than a few K of data (say a couple of megabytes) and it'll wipe out the box. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message