Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 21:10:57 +0200 (EET) From: Dmitry Pryanishnikov <dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua> To: David Adam <zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> Cc: FreeBSD Stable Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: sshd. "UseDNS no" ignored? Message-ID: <20061130205045.A96066@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0611301903110.14631@mussel.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> References: <d8a4930a0611210211q4920bfdkf7f0400c69df2689@mail.gmail.com> <4563126E.2060904@math.missouri.edu> <20061129143330.T82233@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua> <Pine.LNX.4.58.0611301903110.14631@mussel.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>
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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
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