Hi,
1. I've checked the ftp.suse.de for SSH in sec1 dir and did not find it ..i however found updates for OpenSSH ..is there any difference b/w the two besides one being commercially free ..are they the similar functionality wise? ...and I'm assuming that i can install the updates even tho i dont have the previous version. 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.) OpenSSH 2 supports also the SSH 2.0 protocols (minus sftp), but I think it is only in SuSE 7.0 available.
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 (For cross compatibility with other systems it should(?) still make sense to ship SSH 1.x since it is freer) Tobias