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Damien Miller6f64f592017-10-01 10:01:56 +11001See https://www.openssh.com/releasenotes.html#7.6p1 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
Darren Tucker6d49ae82016-10-21 05:22:55 +11007- A Japanese translation of this document and of the release notes is
Damien Millerdadc0512000-11-29 12:51:14 +11008- available at http://www.unixuser.org/~haruyama/security/openssh/index.html
Damien Millerb063f012001-12-24 14:17:21 +11009- Thanks to HARUYAMA Seigo <haruyama@unixuser.org>
Damien Miller5a88b6e2000-03-07 22:40:57 +110010
Damien Miller6604fad2000-11-06 12:48:54 +110011This is the port of OpenBSD's excellent OpenSSH[0] to Linux and other
Damien Miller5bbbd361999-11-19 07:56:21 +110012Unices.
Damien Millerd4a8b7e1999-10-27 13:42:43 +100013
Kevin Stevesbdb063d2001-02-24 09:00:23 +000014OpenSSH is based on the last free version of Tatu Ylonen's sample
15implementation with all patent-encumbered algorithms removed (to
16external libraries), all known security bugs fixed, new features
17reintroduced and many other clean-ups. OpenSSH has been created by
18Aaron Campbell, Bob Beck, Markus Friedl, Niels Provos, Theo de Raadt,
Darren Tucker6d49ae82016-10-21 05:22:55 +110019and Dug Song. It has a homepage at https://www.openssh.com/
Damien Millerd4a8b7e1999-10-27 13:42:43 +100020
Damien Miller56825a11999-11-11 10:50:04 +110021This port consists of the re-introduction of autoconf support, PAM
Tim Rice52879022004-06-27 20:50:35 -070022support, EGD[1]/PRNGD[2] support and replacements for OpenBSD library
23functions that are (regrettably) absent from other unices. This port
24has been best tested on AIX, Cygwin, HP-UX, Linux, MacOS/X,
25NetBSD, OpenBSD, OpenServer, Solaris, Unicos, and UnixWare.
26
Damien Miller54057c22000-05-09 15:03:37 +100027This version actively tracks changes in the OpenBSD CVS repository.
Damien Millerd4a8b7e1999-10-27 13:42:43 +100028
Damien Miller5ffa6441999-10-30 11:30:35 +100029The PAM support is now more functional than the popular packages of
30commercial ssh-1.2.x. It checks "account" and "session" modules for
Damien Miller7df20e21999-11-12 16:06:47 +110031all logins, not just when using password authentication.
Damien Millerd4a8b7e1999-10-27 13:42:43 +100032
Damien Miller6c1fbd52017-07-21 14:24:26 +100033OpenSSH depends on Zlib[3], OpenSSL[4], and optionally PAM[5] and
34libedit[6]
Damien Miller74389c91999-11-09 15:03:01 +110035
Damien Millerf20c2aa2000-01-06 20:28:41 +110036There is now several mailing lists for this port of OpenSSH. Please
Darren Tucker6d49ae82016-10-21 05:22:55 +110037refer to https://www.openssh.com/list.html for details on how to join.
Damien Millera4195281999-11-12 14:11:10 +110038
Damien Millerf20c2aa2000-01-06 20:28:41 +110039Please send bug reports and patches to the mailing list
Darren Tucker08d9e952016-10-21 09:46:46 +110040openssh-unix-dev@mindrot.org. The list is open to posting by unsubscribed
41users. Code contribution are welcomed, but please follow the OpenBSD
Damien Miller6c1fbd52017-07-21 14:24:26 +100042style guidelines[7].
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
Darren Tucker6d49ae82016-10-21 05:22:55 +110045OpenSSH on your system.
Damien Miller7df20e21999-11-12 16:06:47 +110046
Damien Millere95b52e2000-10-28 13:22:06 +110047Damien Miller <djm@mindrot.org>
Damien Millerd4a8b7e1999-10-27 13:42:43 +100048
Damien Millera8e06ce2003-11-21 23:48:55 +110049Miscellania -
Damien Millerd4a8b7e1999-10-27 13:42:43 +100050
Kevin Stevesbdb063d2001-02-24 09:00:23 +000051This version of OpenSSH is based upon code retrieved from the OpenBSD
52CVS repository which in turn was based on the last free sample
53implementation released by Tatu Ylonen.
Damien Millerd4a8b7e1999-10-27 13:42:43 +100054
Damien Miller356a0b01999-11-08 15:30:59 +110055References -
56
Darren Tucker6d49ae82016-10-21 05:22:55 +110057[0] https://www.openssh.com/
Damien Miller56825a11999-11-11 10:50:04 +110058[1] http://www.lothar.com/tech/crypto/
Damien Miller0736c4d2001-01-25 10:51:46 +110059[2] http://www.aet.tu-cottbus.de/personen/jaenicke/postfix_tls/prngd.html
Kevin Stevesc3ad02e2001-10-28 18:10:22 +000060[3] http://www.gzip.org/zlib/
Damien Miller0736c4d2001-01-25 10:51:46 +110061[4] http://www.openssl.org/
Damien Millerc0e014d2005-06-05 09:21:41 +100062[5] http://www.openpam.org
Darren Tucker6d49ae82016-10-21 05:22:55 +110063 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/
Damien Millerc0e014d2005-06-05 09:21:41 +100064 (PAM also is standard on Solaris and HP-UX 11)
Damien Miller6c1fbd52017-07-21 14:24:26 +100065[6] http://thrysoee.dk/editline/ (portable version)
66[7] http://man.openbsd.org/style.9