Message-ID: <006301c05b89$2e04fd60$e5195882@chethams.org.uk>
From: "Fergus Wilde"
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 11:23:49 -0000
Subject: Re: [SLE] OpenSSH For SuSE ??
I have openssh 2.3 running on some machines and ssh 2.3 from ssh.com on
others - there are certainly licensing differences between the two if
nothing else, and although they are largely compatible they seem to bitch
about each other a bit on odd occasions - sorry not to be more specific, but
there haven't been any problems consistent enough to record. Or it could
just be that I've not set either of them up particularly well. There has
been a recent glut of security alerts for Openssh versions prior to 2.3, so
it wouldn't seem wise to go in for an earlier version. See
http://www.linuxsecurity.org for an article about this. I'm not trying to
put anyone off Openssh, versions > 2.3 are said to be fine, and also it can
be used freely in commercial environments, the other can't.
When it comes to 'conflicts' between the two, I would have thought you'd
need to decide which one you're going to use on a given machine and stick to
it, as the command lines 'ssh [whateverhost]' and 'scp [whateverfiles]' are
the same for each. If you want to be able to receive connections with an
ssh server, you also need to have the sshd daemon running and listening,
usu. on port 22 - I can't see how you could easily chop and change.
Those who have the sad obligation to connect windows machines to *nix may
want to know that ssh.com offer an excellent windows client, with an nice
frontend to both ssh and scp. This requires getting a non-commercial
license, but this is very easy - so long as you're not commercial.
Ssh.com's 2.3 builds readily from .tar on SuSE 6.4, I did it and I know
nothing whatever about compiling software, just blindly followed the readmes
in the tarball with perfect results. Openssh 2.3 should build, but I
haven't done it, the openssh machine I've got being Openbsd.
Could I remind friends from the USA (in the nicest possible way) to keep
pestering their government to change their bizarre crypto laws, as it is
usually the rest of the world that feels cut off and offended when finding
we can't do crypto for 'legal reasons' - this issue is nothing to do with
SuSE and I'm sure they'd much rather only have one English disk set to
produce, not two.
Best,
Fergus Wilde
Chetham's Library
Long Millgate
Manchester
M3 1SB
UK
Tel: +44 (0)161 834 7961
Fax: +44 (0)161 839 5797
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