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Damien Millera7205e62018-10-12 09:47:20 +11001See https://www.openssh.com/releasenotes.html#7.9p1 for the release notes.
Darren Tucker5ce131f2004-02-24 16:13:24 +11002
Darren Tucker6d49ae82016-10-21 05:22:55 +11003Please read https://www.openssh.com/report.html for bug reporting
Damien Millere91346d2015-08-21 14:49:03 +10004instructions and note that we do not use Github for bug reporting or
5patch/pull-request management.
6
Damien Miller6604fad2000-11-06 12:48:54 +11007This is the port of OpenBSD's excellent OpenSSH[0] to Linux and other
Damien Miller5bbbd361999-11-19 07:56:21 +11008Unices.
Damien Millerd4a8b7e1999-10-27 13:42:43 +10009
Kevin Stevesbdb063d2001-02-24 09:00:23 +000010OpenSSH is based on the last free version of Tatu Ylonen's sample
11implementation with all patent-encumbered algorithms removed (to
12external libraries), all known security bugs fixed, new features
13reintroduced and many other clean-ups. OpenSSH has been created by
14Aaron Campbell, Bob Beck, Markus Friedl, Niels Provos, Theo de Raadt,
Darren Tucker6d49ae82016-10-21 05:22:55 +110015and Dug Song. It has a homepage at https://www.openssh.com/
Damien Millerd4a8b7e1999-10-27 13:42:43 +100016
Damien Miller56825a11999-11-11 10:50:04 +110017This port consists of the re-introduction of autoconf support, PAM
Tim Rice52879022004-06-27 20:50:35 -070018support, EGD[1]/PRNGD[2] support and replacements for OpenBSD library
19functions that are (regrettably) absent from other unices. This port
20has been best tested on AIX, Cygwin, HP-UX, Linux, MacOS/X,
Damien Millercf39f872018-10-12 09:48:05 +110021FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, OpenServer, Solaris and UnixWare.
Tim Rice52879022004-06-27 20:50:35 -070022
Damien Miller54057c22000-05-09 15:03:37 +100023This version actively tracks changes in the OpenBSD CVS repository.
Damien Millerd4a8b7e1999-10-27 13:42:43 +100024
Damien Miller5ffa6441999-10-30 11:30:35 +100025The PAM support is now more functional than the popular packages of
26commercial ssh-1.2.x. It checks "account" and "session" modules for
Damien Miller7df20e21999-11-12 16:06:47 +110027all logins, not just when using password authentication.
Damien Millerd4a8b7e1999-10-27 13:42:43 +100028
Damien Miller6c1fbd52017-07-21 14:24:26 +100029OpenSSH depends on Zlib[3], OpenSSL[4], and optionally PAM[5] and
30libedit[6]
Damien Miller74389c91999-11-09 15:03:01 +110031
Damien Millerf20c2aa2000-01-06 20:28:41 +110032There is now several mailing lists for this port of OpenSSH. Please
Darren Tucker6d49ae82016-10-21 05:22:55 +110033refer to https://www.openssh.com/list.html for details on how to join.
Damien Millera4195281999-11-12 14:11:10 +110034
Damien Millerf20c2aa2000-01-06 20:28:41 +110035Please send bug reports and patches to the mailing list
Darren Tucker08d9e952016-10-21 09:46:46 +110036openssh-unix-dev@mindrot.org. The list is open to posting by unsubscribed
37users. Code contribution are welcomed, but please follow the OpenBSD
Damien Miller6c1fbd52017-07-21 14:24:26 +100038style guidelines[7].
Damien Miller64681252000-06-26 13:01:33 +100039
Damien Millerb5f89271999-11-12 14:35:58 +110040Please refer to the INSTALL document for information on how to install
Darren Tucker6d49ae82016-10-21 05:22:55 +110041OpenSSH on your system.
Damien Miller7df20e21999-11-12 16:06:47 +110042
Damien Millere95b52e2000-10-28 13:22:06 +110043Damien Miller <djm@mindrot.org>
Damien Millerd4a8b7e1999-10-27 13:42:43 +100044
Damien Millera8e06ce2003-11-21 23:48:55 +110045Miscellania -
Damien Millerd4a8b7e1999-10-27 13:42:43 +100046
Kevin Stevesbdb063d2001-02-24 09:00:23 +000047This version of OpenSSH is based upon code retrieved from the OpenBSD
48CVS repository which in turn was based on the last free sample
49implementation released by Tatu Ylonen.
Damien Millerd4a8b7e1999-10-27 13:42:43 +100050
Damien Miller356a0b01999-11-08 15:30:59 +110051References -
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Darren Tucker6d49ae82016-10-21 05:22:55 +110053[0] https://www.openssh.com/
Damien Miller56825a11999-11-11 10:50:04 +110054[1] http://www.lothar.com/tech/crypto/
Darren Tucker9879dca2018-02-15 22:26:16 +110055[2] http://prngd.sourceforge.net/
Alan Yeecd4e9372018-03-07 15:12:14 -080056[3] https://www.zlib.net/
57[4] https://www.openssl.org/
58[5] https://www.openpam.org
59 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/
Damien Millerc0e014d2005-06-05 09:21:41 +100060 (PAM also is standard on Solaris and HP-UX 11)
Alan Yeecd4e9372018-03-07 15:12:14 -080061[6] https://thrysoee.dk/editline/ (portable version)
62[7] https://man.openbsd.org/style.9