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Re: Openssh-server installation in etch

One thing I could not straight out is which task can
actually install the openssh server? If the openssh server
can not be installed by standard task selection,
then this could be listed as a bug, since it would
be difficult for people who actually need this service
to find out what to do.
I did some searching before finding out what to do.
First I have to know there is something called
openssh server.  I tried sshd and did not find the
package. Search with simply ssh revealed this
arrangement.

Tim Yang

2007/3/29, Jochen Schulz <ml@well-adjusted.de>:

Tim Yang:
>
> However I found a little problem. Since it is a server, I
> try to connect from another box with SSH and it was
> refused. I found out the problem was that the SSH server
> was not installed. Only openssh client was installed,
> not the server. I have to manually apt-get the openssh server
> and install it.
>
> My question is if this is a feature or bug?

It depends on who you ask, probably. :) What's new in etch (and
definitely a feature) ist that openssh has been split into a -client and
-server package. This is a good thing since a lot of desktop users don't
need an SSH server on their machines. And I guess that's the reason for
openssh-server not being installed by default. But I agree that one
could still argue, that a task like "fileserver" is mostly used on
machines where an SSH server is most probably a good thing. On the other
hand, if "fileserver" depended on oppenssh-server, that might be
surprising, too.

This might be a candidate for the release notes. At first glance, I
couldn't find any information concerning openssh packaging changes in
the draft.

J.
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