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OpenSSH 5.0 released

OpenSSH 5.0 released

Posted Apr 4, 2008 10:18 UTC (Fri) by djm (subscriber, #11651)
In reply to: OpenSSH 5.0 released by Wummel
Parent article: OpenSSH 5.0 released

Not everyone uses PAM - OpenBSD uses "BSD auth" (derived from BSDI IIRC), which is IMO a much
cleaner and safer design than PAM. Most of the differences lie in missing library routines or
systems calls, or ones with different semantics. [uw]tmp/lastlog handling (actually login
handling in general) is another area of wild divergence.

Yes, we use some tools to merge changes from the OpenBSD tree to the portable tree - it isn't
much of an overhead at all.


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