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OpenSSH Gets Even More Suspicious

Posted by timothy on from the mother-may-i dept.

If you remotely administer any computers, or need to check your email over an untrusted network, odds are you're already familiar with the wonders of OpenSSH. Markus Friedl yesterday posted a release announcement for the newest version, OpenSSH 3.3. Privilege separation in OpenSSH is now enabled by default, another sign of the entire OpenBSD project's appropriate paranoia.

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  1. Re:Necessary and useful by Jeremi · · Score: 5, Interesting
    but how exactly do you define "free" in a way it doesn't match FreeBSDs license? The usual complaint from people favoring the GPL is that it's not Copyleft, so it's free even for people not interested in freedom for anyone but themselves


    I think the GPL people would say that FreeBSD isn't Free in the "Free Willy" sense... GPL software cannot be captured back into proprietary software and made non-free again, whereas BSD licensed software can be (and often is). So while Linux code will always roam the wild plains, BSD code spends some of its time laboring in the Microsoft prison camps.... or something like that. :^)

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  2. Re:SSH is magnificent! by demaria · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Thanks for the info. Something else cool, SSH with Tokens. I saw a demo at N+I on the commercial SSH 3.0 by SSH Communications. You need to have a token (such as an e-Aladdin USB eToken) plugged in during the entire session. If the token is removed, the shell instantly drops.