See https://www.openssh.com/releasenotes.html#7.6p1 for the release notes.



Please read https://www.openssh.com/report.html for bug reporting

instructions and note that we do not use Github for bug reporting or

patch/pull-request management.



- A Japanese translation of this document and of the release notes is

- available at http://www.unixuser.org/~haruyama/security/openssh/index.html

- Thanks to HARUYAMA Seigo <haruyama@unixuser.org>



This is the port of OpenBSD's excellent OpenSSH[0] to Linux and other

Unices.



OpenSSH is based on the last free version of Tatu Ylonen's sample

implementation with all patent-encumbered algorithms removed (to

external libraries), all known security bugs fixed, new features

reintroduced and many other clean-ups.  OpenSSH has been created by

Aaron Campbell, Bob Beck, Markus Friedl, Niels Provos, Theo de Raadt,

and Dug Song. It has a homepage at https://www.openssh.com/



This port consists of the re-introduction of autoconf support, PAM

support, EGD[1]/PRNGD[2] support and replacements for OpenBSD library

functions that are (regrettably) absent from other unices. This port

has been best tested on AIX, Cygwin, HP-UX, Linux, MacOS/X,

NetBSD, OpenBSD, OpenServer, Solaris, Unicos, and UnixWare.



This version actively tracks changes in the OpenBSD CVS repository.



The PAM support is now more functional than the popular packages of

commercial ssh-1.2.x. It checks "account" and "session" modules for

all logins, not just when using password authentication.



OpenSSH depends on Zlib[3], OpenSSL[4], and optionally PAM[5] and

libedit[6]



There is now several mailing lists for this port of OpenSSH. Please

refer to https://www.openssh.com/list.html for details on how to join.



Please send bug reports and patches to the mailing list

openssh-unix-dev@mindrot.org. The list is open to posting by unsubscribed

users.  Code contribution are welcomed, but please follow the OpenBSD

style guidelines[7].



Please refer to the INSTALL document for information on how to install

OpenSSH on your system.



Damien Miller <djm@mindrot.org>



Miscellania -



This version of OpenSSH is based upon code retrieved from the OpenBSD

CVS repository which in turn was based on the last free sample

implementation released by Tatu Ylonen.



References -



[0] https://www.openssh.com/

[1] http://www.lothar.com/tech/crypto/

[2] http://www.aet.tu-cottbus.de/personen/jaenicke/postfix_tls/prngd.html

[3] http://www.gzip.org/zlib/

[4] http://www.openssl.org/

[5] http://www.openpam.org

    http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/

    (PAM also is standard on Solaris and HP-UX 11)

[6] http://thrysoee.dk/editline/ (portable version)

[7] http://man.openbsd.org/style.9