From owner-freebsd-security Wed Oct 4 12:23:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49CA137B502 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 12:23:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA241704; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 15:23:39 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 15:23:38 -0400 To: , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: OSSH and NetBSD's "OSSH" ? Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 2:44 PM -0400 10/4/00, wrote: > Since were trying to keep in sync with OpenSSH as the goal, >has anyone given thought if we will maintain compatability with >NetBSD's "OpenSSH" replacement? > >I think their decision to do their own implementation is just daft. >But I am curious as to how this will affect things. I am guessing >we will just sync with OSSH and if NetBSD's version happens to be >compat fine if not too bad so sad. This whole thing really annoys >me. But I am curious about others thoughts. I don't follow NetBSD, so I don't know what their replacement is or why they did it. My gut reaction is that I'd rather see freebsd stick with openssh.com's implementation, just because that is what I'll be using on many other unix platforms here at RPI. If NetBSD has a different implementation, and if that includes some "neat feature" that we would like, I would still prefer to see us work on getting THAT FEATURE into openssh.com's implementation, if possible. I would hope that whatever they have, it should be already be "compatible" with both openssh and the original ssh implementations, except for new features that they have added. Since I have no idea what this openssh-replacement is, or what benefits it might offer, there isn't much more I can say about it. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message