Re: What/Where is ssh?
On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Kent West wrote:
> Is ssh a more secure replacement for telnet, or what?
Basically, yes. ssh uses strong encryption to secure your connection. Just
about any connection between your computer and the remote one can be
forwarded over the ssh encrypted channel (X is a common one)
Note that the remote comp must have sshd running (usually port 22)
> And, where is it? I've got my apt sources.list pointing to stable main
> contrib non-free, but "apt-get install ssh" returns a message that "ssh
> is mentioned in the database but there's no installation candidate,
> which probably means the package is obsolete" (summarized).
Since it uses strong encryption, the US government classifies it as a
mutition. So US-based servers can't distribute source or binaries unless
they have measures in place to only allow US citizens to download it.
Other countries have no such restrictions; therefore, non-us.debian.org
For slink, use this line in sources.list:
deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US
For potato, use this (one line):
deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free
Besides ssh, you can get other useful programs like telnet-ssl, fortify,
and pgp/gpg.
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