Hi!
The reason for the existance of OpenSSH but not SSH is that there had been a security hole in OpenSSH. Goto ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/ e.g. 6.4/suse/sec1/ for SSH. OpenSSH has some things linke X-forward and auth forward disabled per default, moreover some encryption methodes cannot be used due to license issues. (If I recall correctly, you need OpenSSL additionally to OpenSSH, since this package contains the crypto stuff.)
Both ssh and openssh work independently from openssl.
OpenSSH 2 supports also the SSH 2.0 protocols (minus sftp), but I think it is only in SuSE 7.0 available.
This is right. openssh was version 1.2.3 in SuSE-6.4, it is version 2.1.1p1 in 7.0.
Question to SuSE: Will it be possible to release a SSH-2-RPM -- Now that the licence has changed? See: http://www.ssh.com/about/press/release15082000.html
The license for distributors requires additional agreements, as compared to the individual commercial and non-commercial license. The status is SYN_WAIT. We hope to be able to distribute the package with 7.1, but please understand that the license may easily keep us from doing so. Did somebody test the software already?
(For cross compatibility with other systems it should(?) still make sense to ship SSH 1.x since it is freer)
ssh-1.2.x has proven to be reliable and fast, yes. Many people are using
it for backups and things like that, so that newer versions have to prove
these qualities.
Thanks,
Roman.
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