Hello,

        I have built the RPMs of the ssh v2. The .nosrc.rpm and .i386.rpm
files are uploaded to ftp.replay.com:/pub/redhat/incoming/. Packages
are PGP-signed by me - please test and let me (or
redhat-crypto@replay.com)
know if you have any problems with it.


* WARNING * WARNING * WARNING * WARNING * WARNING * WARNING *

        These packages are _NOT_ meant as the official release of the
ssh2 RPMs [ So Alex, please create the directory "testing" or "dontuse"
for them and do not link them from the webpage yet ]. I am not planning
the
move to ssh2 in the near future, so I have not tested these RPMs enough.

        Currently I know about one non-trivial problem with these RPMs:
They cannot be cleanly installed together with ssh-1 RPMs, because the
ssh-1 and ssh-2 owns the x1 -> x (or x2 -> x) -style symlinks. To solve
this I am just now preparing the new release of ssh-1.2.26, which do not
own the x1 -> x symlinks - it just creates them in %post scripts iff they
do not currently exist. The ssh2 RPMs creates the x1 -> x symlinks
unconditionally. This will allow ssh1 and ssh2 to co-exist even when
ssh1 is installed (possibly as a compatibility option) _after_ ssh2.

        Another topic: PAM support is still missing from ssh2 RPMs.
I still need to find a time to finish it (:-|).

        I am able to provide sparc (32-bit) and alpha binary RPMs,
but I want people to test the i386 version first, and tell me if the
basic concept is right.

        My current opinion on ssh2: The way sshd2 exec()s sshd1 if
the ssh1 client connects in is _ugly_ because it requires the newly
executed
sshd1 to compute a 768-bit server key for each incoming connection,
which can be SLOW on some computers). And of course, the ssh2 license
is too strict for me. I hope the psssh(sp?) project will make things
better.

        Legal question: Am I allowed (by the ssh2 license, not by
replay's admins :-) to distribute ssh2 .src.rpms via ftp.replay.com?

        I am also thinking about distributing the .src.rpm (and binaries)
via replay and putting the nosrc.rpm on RedHat Contrib|Net.

        Comments?

-Yenya

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