From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 30 19:11:16 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4DDE16A492 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 19:11:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua) Received: from postman.atlantis.dp.ua (postman.atlantis.dp.ua [193.108.47.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 742DC43CC8 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 19:10:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua) Received: from smtp.atlantis.dp.ua (smtp.atlantis.dp.ua [193.108.46.231]) by postman.atlantis.dp.ua (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id kAUJAvlF020366; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 21:10:58 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua) Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 21:10:57 +0200 (EET) From: Dmitry Pryanishnikov To: David Adam In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20061130205045.A96066@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua> References: <4563126E.2060904@math.missouri.edu> <20061129143330.T82233@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: FreeBSD Stable Mailing List Subject: Re: sshd. "UseDNS no" ignored? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 19:11:17 -0000 Hello! On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, David Adam wrote: > On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Dmitry Pryanishnikov wrote: >> I'm still wondering why OpenSSH is _so_ inferior to SSH.COM's ssh2 >> (which is also open-source)? > > Is it really open-source? I couldn't find any reference to source > downloads or licensing terms on http://www.ssh.com/. It mentions OpenSSH > as an open-source alternative. Well, security/ssh2 port builds all binaries from sources which are freely available at ftp://ftp.ssh.com/pub/ssh/ . The following URL: http://www.ssh.com/support/downloads/secureshellserver/non-commercial.html contains both download URLs and "Non-commercial license agreement for SSH Secure Shell for Servers" link. >> the only option which present in ssh2 while absent in OpenSSH, second >> very useful one is: >> >> AuthInteractiveFailureTimeout 10 >> >> which make SSH-password-guessing robots to give up after the first attempt ;) > > You might like to suggest these features to the OpenSSH developers! > http://www.openssh.com/report.html Well, maybe I'll do that if/when ssh2 becomes unavailable... > Of course, when space is at a premium, Dropbear is the answer to your SSH > questions. I suppose that 3rd product can't be an answer to the question why 1st product is worse than 2nd... But thanks for the pointer! > David Adam > zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Sincerely, Dmitry -- Atlantis ISP, System Administrator e-mail: dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua nic-hdl: LYNX-RIPE