On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, Theo de Raadt wrote:

> The upcoming OpenBSD 2.6 release contains/includes an ssh implimentation
> which is derived from an earlier ssh 1 (and thus has no Datafellows
> licencing issues).  We are calling this ssh by the name "OpenSSH".
>
> Anyways, in the process of rewriting parts of ssh, the OpenSSH
> developers accidentally fixed this bug.  Whoops! :-)

I'd like people to note that, in FreeBSD, you should be using the
"OpenSSH-1.2" package, ports/security/openssh.  This is a direct port
of the OpenSSH source from the OpenBSD CVS, and as such is that much
more secure than plain SSH, and OpenSSH should be used instead where
possible.

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 Brian Fundakowski Feldman           \  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve!  /
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