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From: jaeger@dhp.com (jaeger)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: secure shells ?
Date: 6 May 1996 15:04:09 GMT
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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