onsdagen den 9 oktober 2002 23.13 skrev Vincent Danen: > 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 $$. I didn't really see anything about a license > there, so have no clue what the license is; there's just the one > copyright notice. > > I can't say that I'm thrilled with the idea of adding something like > this.
You might be right about the $$. But it's new code following a new RFC from what I could understand. New features are allways exiting. I have mailed vandyke to make them clarify the license. > >> 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. Yes, you're right. Let's wait and see what happens. I searched their mail archives but couldn't find a word about the keyserver feature. -- Regards // Oden Eriksson - Deserve-IT Networks http://d-srv.com Check the "Modules For Apache2" status page at: http://d-srv.com/modules_for_apache2.html
