How strange, I thought I had that line in my sources.list. I downloaded the ls-lR.gz from debian's site and did a grep for ssh on the entire file... didn't come up... I guess I just didn't look hard enough. Silly me. * Blake ----- Original Message ----- From: "der.hans" To: Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2000 2:52 AM Subject: Re: SSH for Debian > Am 23. Sep, 2000 schwäzte Blake B. so: > > > Why aren't there .debs available for debian? I'd really like to be able to > > Um, debian's had ssh packaged longer than any other dist. Several years. > It used to be ssh1, but they switched to OpenSSH some time ago. > > Add the following to /etc/apt/sources.list: > > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib > non-free > > What I want to know is why the other dists don't have OpenSSH? There were > probs with making ssh avail in the .us, which is why debian's had it on > non-us, but OpenSSH fixed the license probs and import/export of crypto > stuff was relaxed. > > > use dpkg / apt-get for ssh on multiple boxes. The only thing I can guess is > > that it's a licensing issue, but there's nothing in non-free or contrib. I'm > > happy to create my own packages... but I wonder why Debian isn't supporthing > > this? > > > > There should be no reasons why it's not included in the distribution as far > > as I can see. (The OpenSSH implementation anyway.) Can anyone clarify this > > for me? > > Exactly. Neither RedHat or Mandrake have it. SuSE did, but only for the > non-US dist. I'm told RedHat 7.0 will finally have it. > > ciao, > > der.hans > -- > # der.hans@LuftHans.com home.pages.de/~lufthans/ www.Opnix.com > # Science is magic explained. - der.hans > > > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >