[2400] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: Announcing sshd for Linux-Athena!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stanley Hu)
Mon Jan 25 10:42:21 1999
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 10:41:21 -0500
To: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
From: Stanley Hu <stanhu@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU, jsholmes@MIT.EDU, eboyden@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <sjmu2xf5po5.fsf@datkins.ihtfp.org>
Good! I didn't plan on maintaining this package anyway--I figured there
was going to be a sshd for Athena ready in the future (as I mentioned in
the README), but this version will work for the current RedHat 4.2 release
which is all I wanted anyway.
At 10:37 AM 1/25/99 -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
>We've already got an Athena-Ized sshd ready for RedHat-Athena 5.2,
>which is currently in alpha-test.
>
>-derek
>
>Stanley Hu <stanhu@MIT.EDU> writes:
>
>>
>> I've compiled a version of sshd for Linux-Athena that allows you to login
>> and automatically obtain your Kerberos tickets and AFS tokens, just like a
>> normal Kerberos telnet session. Now you can use ssh to quickly and easily
>> login to your Linux-Athena system!
>>
>> You'll need to download the following RPMs and install them:
>>
>>
>ftp://ftp.replay.com/pub/replay/linux/redhat/i386/ssh-1.2.26-1us.libc5.i386
.rpm
>> http://fusion.mit.edu/Linux/athena-ssh-server-1.2.26-1.i386.rpm
>>
>> The first RPM package, released by Replay Associates
>> (http://www.replay.com), generates your server's public/private key pair
>> and installs general ssh files. If you've already installed the ssh-server
>> package from Replay, uninstall it (using rpm -e <package>) and then install
>> my version.
>>
>> Release notes can be found at the following location:
>>
>> http://fusion.mit.edu/Linux/README.athena
>>
>> One limitation of this sshd package is that by default, it allows all users
>> with a valid Kerberos username/ID to login. In order to restrict user
>> access, you'll need to edit the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file and use the
>> "AllowUsers" and/or "AllowGroups" fields (see "man sshd" for more
details).
>>
>> Please report any problems or difficulties in getting this to work.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Stanley Hu
>
>--
> Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
> Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB)
> URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL N1NWH
> warlord@MIT.EDU PGP key available
