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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!garlic.com!fox.almaden.ibm.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!blackbush.xlink.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: secure shells ? Date: 6 May 1996 07:49:28 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 27 Message-ID: <4mkau8$51s@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <aak2.831349844@ra.msstate.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E aak2@Ra.MsState.Edu (Atif Ahmad Khan) wrote: > While installing the latest snap I noticed a package for > a secure shell. I tried to install it but got an error saying > that it was not found. ssh seems to develop rather rapidly. So you might perhaps see to get a newer version instead of the one that is mentioned in the Makefile. > Has this been taken off the ftp site ? I am not very familiar > with secure shell but my understanding is that these should > provide me a remote shell that cannot be snooped upon easily ? It is. It provides encrypted sessions, even compressed if you want, and can also forward X11 sessions. > Is there something like available for other OS'es like linux > or windows etc ? It should also work on Linux. What's ``windows''? :) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)