From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 21 01:24:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA10653 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 01:24:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from shell.aros.net (shell.aros.net [205.164.111.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA10629 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 01:24:13 -0800 (PST) Received: (from angio@localhost) by shell.aros.net (8.7.5/Unknown) id CAA03024; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 02:26:11 -0700 (MST) From: Dave Andersen Message-Id: <199603210926.CAA03024@shell.aros.net> Subject: Re: ssh-1.2.10; ok to run? To: jbarrm@panix.com (Barry Masterson) Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 02:26:11 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from Barry Masterson at "Mar 20, 96 09:55:21 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL13 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Lo and behold, Barry Masterson once said: > saying that the (ports version ssh-1.2.10) is a beta release, and > may be unstable. There are of course earlier, and later versions > available, but the port is for 1.2.10 Get the later versions (1.2.13 is what we're running). They're easy to install on FreeBSD, and they don't have the security holes and/or quick patches to fix the holes that 1.2.10 does. > Has anyone, is anyone using it? Any horror stories? It's great. > As far as I can tell, there are no ssh files in the 2.1.0-release > packages directory at wcarchive. So I'm looking into the compiling the > ports collection. (/ports/security/ssh) Just grab the originals. You can get them from something like ftp.cs.hut.fi (I think). -Dave Andersen -- angio@aros.net Complete virtual hosting and business-oriented system administration Internet services. (WWW, FTP, email) http://www.aros.net/ http://www.aros.net/about/virtual/ "There are only two industries that refer to thier customers as 'users'."