On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 02:27 PM, Oden Eriksson wrote:
>>> I just found a patch by Van Dyke, the makers of SecureCRT (for win32) >>> for >>> openssh that might be interesting for Mandrake? >>> >>> Patches are applied to this mail. >> >> Tell me why it's interesting, or some sort of README for this. It >> doesn't look like it changes very much of the core openssh code, so I >> won't reject it out of hand, but I don't feel like reading the patch >> from top to bottom to figure out what it does. >> >> If you can point me to more info on it, or tell me what it does and >> how >> it would be used, that would be helpful. Also, any links to whether >> or >> not this fellow tried to get into the main openssh program or not (and >> if so, why it was rejected) would be useful as well. > > There's actually a link presented 2 times in the spec file patch > pointing to: > > http://www.vandyke.com/download/os/pks_ossh.html > > On that page there's a link to: > > http://www.vandyke.com/technology/draft-ietf-secsh-publickey- > subsystem.txt I read part of the draft and nosed around the site. Can't say that I really care to include this. Looks like it's a nice way for them to make some extra $$. I didn't really see anything about a license there, so have no clue what the license is; there's just the one copyright notice. I can't say that I'm thrilled with the idea of adding something like this. >> I don't really like to tamper with openssh too much. =) > > He he, I know that :) > > I just thought this would be interesting for Mandrake, that's it. Sure, it definitely might be interesting. I'd like to get the thoughts of the openssh team first, tho. I really don't like adding stuff that hasn't been audited by them (since they know the openssh code better than I), especially with openssh being such a core component. If it was licq or something, no big deal. -- MandrakeSoft Security; http://www.mandrakesecure.net/ "lynx - source http://linsec.ca/vdanen.asc | gpg --import" {FE6F2AFD: 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD}
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