Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 14:12:57 -0400 From: "Patrick Bihan-Faou" <patrick@mindstep.com> To: "Ollivier Robert" <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>, <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeSSH Message-ID: <012201bf166f$bdf38fa0$190aa8c0@local.mindstep.com> References: <19991012220217.A14906@futuresouth.com> <wuzoxnh3zt.fsf@bg.sics.se> <19991014191148.A70611@keltia.freenix.fr>
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Hi, From: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>: > According to Bjoern Groenvall: > > If you are willing to run configure and make why don't you just fetch > > ftp://ftp.pdc.kth.se/pub/krypto/ossh/ossh-1.2.17.tar.gz? OSSH has no > > restrictions on use (if you're not in the US) and builds straight out > > The main problem is that this code base is *OLD* (1995) and a lot of things > have been fixed (not only buffer overflows but protocol problems) since this > version. > > I see backporting all the modifications from 1.2.27 as a non trivial task and > maybe not worth the big effort when you can install the latest with the > port... Except maybe for the license. If I remember correctly you can't use the newer versions of ssh for free if you use it for commercial reasons. Patrick. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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