From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 16 19:04:39 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D1BC16A41F for ; Sat, 16 Jul 2005 19:04:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ges+lists@wingfoot.org) Received: from wingfoot.org (caduceus.wingfoot.org [64.32.179.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C044C43D49 for ; Sat, 16 Jul 2005 19:04:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ges+lists@wingfoot.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wingfoot.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3660C1F440C for ; Sat, 16 Jul 2005 15:04:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: from wingfoot.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (wingfoot.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 43631-02 for ; Sat, 16 Jul 2005 15:04:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (ool-44c47f78.dyn.optonline.net [68.196.127.120]) by wingfoot.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7665F1F4405 for ; Sat, 16 Jul 2005 15:04:36 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <42D95B47.5050503@wingfoot.org> Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 15:08:55 -0400 From: Glenn Sieb Organization: Wingfoot Organization User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Thunderbird/1.0.2 Mnenhy/0.6.0.104 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ports@freebsd.org References: <42D95779.4040305@wingfoot.org> In-Reply-To: <42D95779.4040305@wingfoot.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at wingfoot.org Cc: Subject: Re: Just wondering, regarding OpenSSH. X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 19:04:39 -0000 Glenn Sieb said the following on 7/16/2005 2:52 PM: > Are there any plans for updating the openssh port to something newer > than 3.6.1? The site shows they're up to 4.1 now. > > These lousy dictionary attacks keep happening, and could easily be > quashed to a degree if the openssh we had would support the > MaxAuthTries feature in sshd_config. > > I'm just curious if I should wait for this, or if I should just go > ahead and update my openssh to something newer? (I'm on FreeBSD 4.11) Eek. And, of course, now I see that openssh-portable is what I'm probably looking for. Thanks anywho, everyone. :-) Best, --Glenn -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." ~Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759