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Damien Miller7f64afd2004-04-18 20:32:56 +10001See http://www.openssh.com/txt/release-3.8.1 for the release notes.
Darren Tucker5ce131f2004-02-24 16:13:24 +11002
Damien Millera8e06ce2003-11-21 23:48:55 +11003- A Japanese translation of this document and of the OpenSSH FAQ is
Damien Millerdadc0512000-11-29 12:51:14 +11004- available at http://www.unixuser.org/~haruyama/security/openssh/index.html
Damien Millerb063f012001-12-24 14:17:21 +11005- Thanks to HARUYAMA Seigo <haruyama@unixuser.org>
Damien Miller5a88b6e2000-03-07 22:40:57 +11006
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,
15and Dug Song. It has a homepage at http://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,
21NetBSD, OpenBSD, OpenServer, Solaris, Unicos, and UnixWare.
22
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 Miller0736c4d2001-01-25 10:51:46 +110029OpenSSH depends on Zlib[3], OpenSSL[4] and optionally PAM[5].
Damien Miller74389c91999-11-09 15:03:01 +110030
Damien Millerf20c2aa2000-01-06 20:28:41 +110031There is now several mailing lists for this port of OpenSSH. Please
Damien Miller7b63b0f2000-05-20 15:41:26 +100032refer to http://www.openssh.com/list.html for details on how to join.
Damien Millera4195281999-11-12 14:11:10 +110033
Damien Millerf20c2aa2000-01-06 20:28:41 +110034Please send bug reports and patches to the mailing list
Damien Miller64681252000-06-26 13:01:33 +100035openssh-unix-dev@mindrot.org. The list is open to posting by
Damien Millerf20c2aa2000-01-06 20:28:41 +110036unsubscribed users.
Damien Miller6ae00d61999-12-14 15:43:03 +110037
Damien Millera8e06ce2003-11-21 23:48:55 +110038If you are a citizen of an USA-embargoed country to which export of
39cryptographic products is restricted, then please refrain from sending
Damien Miller64681252000-06-26 13:01:33 +100040crypto-related code or patches to the list. We cannot accept them.
41Other code contribution are accepted, but please follow the OpenBSD
Damien Miller0736c4d2001-01-25 10:51:46 +110042style guidelines[6].
Damien Miller64681252000-06-26 13:01:33 +100043
Damien Millerb5f89271999-11-12 14:35:58 +110044Please refer to the INSTALL document for information on how to install
Damien Millera8e06ce2003-11-21 23:48:55 +110045OpenSSH on your system. There are a number of differences between this
Damien Miller0736c4d2001-01-25 10:51:46 +110046port of OpenSSH and F-Secure SSH 1.x, please refer to the OpenSSH FAQ[7]
Damien Miller6604fad2000-11-06 12:48:54 +110047for details and general tips.
Damien Miller7df20e21999-11-12 16:06:47 +110048
Damien Millere95b52e2000-10-28 13:22:06 +110049Damien Miller <djm@mindrot.org>
Damien Millerd4a8b7e1999-10-27 13:42:43 +100050
Damien Millera8e06ce2003-11-21 23:48:55 +110051Miscellania -
Damien Millerd4a8b7e1999-10-27 13:42:43 +100052
Kevin Stevesbdb063d2001-02-24 09:00:23 +000053This version of OpenSSH is based upon code retrieved from the OpenBSD
54CVS repository which in turn was based on the last free sample
55implementation released by Tatu Ylonen.
Damien Millerd4a8b7e1999-10-27 13:42:43 +100056
Damien Miller356a0b01999-11-08 15:30:59 +110057References -
58
Damien Miller6604fad2000-11-06 12:48:54 +110059[0] http://www.openssh.com/faq.html
Damien Miller56825a11999-11-11 10:50:04 +110060[1] http://www.lothar.com/tech/crypto/
Damien Miller0736c4d2001-01-25 10:51:46 +110061[2] http://www.aet.tu-cottbus.de/personen/jaenicke/postfix_tls/prngd.html
Kevin Stevesc3ad02e2001-10-28 18:10:22 +000062[3] http://www.gzip.org/zlib/
Damien Miller0736c4d2001-01-25 10:51:46 +110063[4] http://www.openssl.org/
Kevin Stevesbdb063d2001-02-24 09:00:23 +000064[5] http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/ (PAM is standard on Solaris
65 and HP-UX 11)
Damien Miller0736c4d2001-01-25 10:51:46 +110066[6] http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=style&sektion=9
67[7] http://www.openssh.com/faq.html
Damien Millere9cf3572001-02-09 12:55:35 +110068
Tim Rice52879022004-06-27 20:50:35 -070069$Id: README,v 1.55 2004/06/28 03:50:35 tim Exp $