[plug] OpenSSH

Leon Brooks leonb at bounce.networx.net.au
Wed Dec 8 20:47:59 WST 1999


Christian wrote:
>> Unless you need to access the machine from Windows, use OpenSSH instead.
>> It's much more secure and can be automated and configured much more
>> flexibly than Telnet. RPMs are available and are drop-ins on Mandrake
>> 6.1 (except you need to install the openssl library first on the basic
>> distribution - it's also available as an RPM).

> There have been bugs found in OpenSSH recently so you *may* have problems
> in some rare(ish) circumstances.  Using the non-free SSH package might be
> advisable in the short-term although of course make sure it's not compiled
> with RSAREF enabled...

Just bugs, or *ghasp* security holes?


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