On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 03:47:56AM -0600, Kurt Seifried wrote:
Something else to note: OpenSSH has grabbed a huge amount of market share and is growing. I know many many people using OpenSSH. Most SSH related articles I have read (and written =) use OpenSSH as the example and typically only mention commercial ssh as a footnote. I do not actually know of any company/etc using commercial ssh (if you are I'd like to know so I can claim I know at least one =).
For our Windows users (those not capable of dealing with "command line scp") I tend to install ssh.com's package. a) I am speaking about a german university. Therefore we do have a license via the DFN (Deutsches Forschungsnetz, the provider of the german universities). We therefore have it for free. b) Provided a) holds, they do offer a graphical file transfer tool for which no freeware replacement is available (yet). (This applies to Windows clients, only) c) Our universities computer center used ssh.com for the servers. They intended to switch to openssh, but whether they changed ... (telnet to port 22, check banner) ... no, they did not change yet. Still running ssh.com. So, as you can see, there are still poor people out there. For everybody else, I support Kurt's statement. I just finished upgrading all of my (HP-UX) boxes to OpenSSH 2.9p1. Released yesterday; supports "hostbased" authentication for protocol 2; protocol 2 is now the default. Really seems to be worth upgrading. Best regards, Lutz PS. No, I won't go again into the debate whether an upgrade to the latest version of OpenSSH should be provided by SuSE via the _update path or not (security fix <-> feature upgrade discussion). -- Lutz Jaenicke Lutz.Jaenicke@aet.TU-Cottbus.DE BTU Cottbus http://www.aet.TU-Cottbus.DE/personen/jaenicke/ Lehrstuhl Allgemeine Elektrotechnik Tel. +49 355 69-4129 Universitaetsplatz 3-4, D-03044 Cottbus Fax. +49 355 69-4153