Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 12:31:54 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> To: Mikhail Kruk <meshko@cs.brandeis.edu> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: security/openssh and BigNumber Message-ID: <20010417123154.C4070@ringworld.oblivion.bg> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0104141519110.9174-100000@daedalus.cs.brandeis.edu>; from meshko@cs.brandeis.edu on Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 03:25:49PM -0400 References: <20010414041013.B90900@xor.obsecurity.org> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0104141519110.9174-100000@daedalus.cs.brandeis.edu>
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On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 03:25:49PM -0400, Mikhail Kruk wrote: > > > I might be wrong here, but I think that BigNumber library is part of > > > openssh package on Linux... it doesn't seem to be so on FreeBSD. > > > Actually I couldn't find any port containing full bignumber install (i.e. > > > with man pages). I've installed pgp5 and it came with the libbn.so, but no > > > man pages... what's up? > > > > My best guess about what this might be is the bignum code which is > > part of libcrypto (OpenSSL), which is in the base system. It's not > > the same thing which pgp5 uses, and I can't say for sure what Linux > > tries to do. > > Oh, you are right, it is part of the > base system: > /usr/src/crypto/openssl/crypto/bn > > It the library I was talking about, but I still want to use it > and miss the man pages :) I've always been under impression that FreeBSD's > man pages are way better than Pinguin's (can you say Linux's?). It seems > that Linux man page for bn is not Linux-specific but rather generic > OpenSSL. Can we include it? The OpenSSL manpages are not installed by default, since they conflict with some of the FreeBSD's utilities' manpages. You can explicitly enable OpenSSL's manpages installation by putting WANT_OPENSSL_MANPAGES=true in your /etc/make.conf. See /etc/defaults/make.conf for more details, on a reasonably recent -stable or -current. G'luck, Peter -- I am the thought you are now thinking. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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