From owner-freebsd-security Fri Nov 12 16:26:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 758) id 47D5D15090; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 16:25:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3353F1CD428; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 16:25:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@hub.freebsd.org) Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 16:25:58 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Kennaway To: Brett Glass Cc: Matthew Dillon , Barry Irwin , Josef Karthauser , Bill Fumerola , Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group , security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disabling FTP by default In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19991112125043.00c85f00@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Brett Glass wrote: > I'm in favor of making it an option in /stand/sysinstall, just as anonymous > FTP is. The default should be to disable the daemon. > > It'd sure be nice if there were an unencumbered scp to enable instead. > I understand that the OpenBSD folks have a BSD-licensed SSH in the works, > but it might still be encumbered by patents..... Does anyone know what > the legal issues are here in the US? It's in /usr/ports/security/openssh which (now) fetches the source from outside the US. However, it still uses RSA, which means no commercial use within the US without a license, until the RSA patent expires next year. Kris ---- Cthulhu for President! For when you're tired of choosing the _lesser_ of two evils.. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message