From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 25 02:13:31 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D32C16A4CE for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2004 02:13:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.balius.com (rrcs-nys-24-24-63-86.biz.rr.com [24.24.63.86]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 519D343D2F for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2004 02:13:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cms@balius.com) Received: from [192.168.1.39] (17inchPB.amotken.com [192.168.1.39]) by peppy.amotken.com (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.21 (built Sep 8 2003)) with ESMTPSA id <0HS100H03ITLTX@peppy.amotken.com> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Sun, 25 Jan 2004 05:08:10 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 05:12:01 -0500 From: Chad M Stewart To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Uptime: $UPTIME X-Mac: It just ROCKS! Subject: updates and version numbers X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 10:13:31 -0000 If this is covered in an FAQ I apologize, my quick check did not find it. I'm new to FreeBSD and am wondering about version numbers of programs in FreeBSD vs. the programs general version. Take sshd for example. I started with 4.9-stable and then updated the system using cvsup in what I believe is the correct manner. After all that I am left with sshd version OpenSSH_3.5p1 FreeBSD-20030924 I'm confused on how to correlate this version to say ftp://ftp.ca.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/OpenSSH/portable/ChangeLog If I understand the way FreeBSD releases occur then using -stable I would not expect to have the latest and greatest software, rather I have a more "stable" version. Appears that the latest and greatest portable version of OpenSSH is Release 3.7.1p2. I am trying to figure out two things: o - what is the base version of OpenSSH that 4.9-stable started with? Logic says that is 3.5p1, but I want to make sure I'm not missing some detail. o - What patches have been applied to the base software to integrate with FreeBSD and more specifically security related patches? Again I apologize if these are newbie questions that are answered somewhere in an FAQ. In which case feel free to send me a URL. I picked sshd as that is one service that I will be exposing and I want to make sure that I understand all of this and am not exposing a vulnerable version. Regards, Chad