Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!garlic.com!fox.almaden.ibm.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!newsfeed.pitt.edu!scramble.lm.com!news.dhp.com!jaeger From: jaeger@dhp.com (jaeger) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: secure shells ? Date: 6 May 1996 15:04:09 GMT Organization: DataHaven Project +1 412 421 4516 (DHP.COM) Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4ml4d9$fea@dhp.com> References: <aak2.831349844@Ra.MsState.Edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2+color] Atif Ahmad Khan (aak2@Ra.MsState.Edu) wrote: : While installing the latest snap I noticed a package for : a secure shell. I tried to install it but got an error saying : that it was not found. : Has this been taken off the ftp site ? I am not very familiar : with secure shell but my understanding is that these should : provide me a remote shell that cannot be snooped upon easily ? : Is there something like available for other OS'es like linux : or windows etc ? : Thanks very much for your time. : Atif Khan : aak2@ra.msstate.edu I grabbed ssh 1.2.13 off of the canonical site cs.hut.fi via ftp, and install it after unpacking with a simple "./configure; make; make install". This is all that is necessary for client-only use, a bit of setup is required to run the sshd. There are also ssh discussion mailing lists with quite a bit of traffic. -jaeger