OpenSSH is Five Years Old

An anonymous reader writes "OpenSSH marks five years of its existence this week and a new round of internet SSH version mapping shows that it has over 88 percent of the SSH server market, according to Damien Miller, one of the developers. Read more."

Happy Birthday SSH!

[lpangelrob2]

I would wish you happy birthday, but the authenticity of your server can't be established...

To anybody who develops OpenSSH here on /., thanks for your hard work. :-)

Thanks...

[Sevn]

For the awesome tool. Ssh, scp, and ssh tunnels are an integral part of how I accomplish things at work, and how I bypass corporate firewalls to use bittorrent. Thanks for the outstanding work.

Re:Thanks...

[Dave2 Wickham]

SSH tunneling is really easy with modern versions of SSH and PuTTY, which can allow you to set up a local SOCKS proxy which goes through the SSH connection. In CLI SSH, use -D[port], and in PuTTY it's under Connection->SSH->Tunnels, set it to dynamic and enter a port (destination's not needed).

Older versions of SSH and PuTTY can do "static" port forwarding, where you bind a local port to a remote destination/port.

Blimey

[Gaima]

Am I the only one thinking "Is that all!"

SSH, and it's associated tools, have become so much intrenched in my everyday life it's hard to remember a world without them!

Thank you very much OpenSSH developers!

Re:Blimey

[mhesseltine]

Am I the only one thinking "Is that all!"

SSH, and it's associated tools, have become so much intrenched in my everyday life it's hard to remember a world without them!

Thank you very much OpenSSH developers!

I'm guessing that the OpenSSH project is 5 years old. I'm sure that the SSH protocol was in place longer than that.

This just marks what quality developers can do given a standard protocol definition. Congrats to the developers.

Re:Blimey

[AT]

Thats right. Tatu Ylönen wrote the original ssh program, which dates back to at least 1995. OpenSSL was started after Ylönen turned ssh into a commerical product and started to make the licence more restrictive. In fact, OpenSSH is based on the code for Ylönen's ssh 1.2.12.

openssh is superb

[mattgorle]

Excellent tools.

Once again, I'm in awe that so many people give so much high quality stuff away. (And keep it up to date!)

Thanks for 5 great years guys, and here's to another 5!

Article Text

[Anonymous Coward]

For those who don't want to accept tens and tens of cookies to read one f'king page...

OpenSSH marks its fifth birthday
By Sam Varghese
September 28, 2004 - 1:41PM

OpenSSH marks five years of its existence this week and a new round of internet SSH version mapping shows that it has over 88 percent of the SSH server market, Damien Miller, one of the developers, said today.

Miller joined the project in October 1999, just a month or so after it began, led by developers Markus Friedl and Niels Provos. Others

Excellent

[r2q2]

Keep on rocking guys. I use ssh somewhat and it never fails on any of my systems. Its what the paranoid use to access their systems :-)

Congrats and thank you!

[whyne]

OpenSSH is a great utility and an example of free software development at its best. the openSSH history [openssh.com]

OpenSSH is great

[gkelman]

The great thing about OpenSSH is it compiles cleanly on Solaris, Irix, HPUX, HPUX on Itanium (on which _nothing_ compiles cleanly), AIX, Tru64, Linux, *BSD....

Makes my life so much easier as I can get SSH up and running nice and quick. If only all major open source projects compiled this easily.

Congrats, but be wary of monocultures...

[Dr. Manhattan]

OpenSSH is da bomb, and no mistake. The people who work on it are very, very good, and its marketshare is deserved.

But even they have made mistakes [slashdot.org] once in a while. An exploitable hole in ssh is a worm-writer's dream. There aren't many sshds that aren't running as root...

I'm kinda glad there are things like lsh [lysator.liu.se] out there. Diversity makes the bad guys' job harder.

Re:Congrats, but be wary of monocultures...

[runderwo]

It'd be nice if some lsh folks would join the real world and implement PAM. Ideological opinions about the state of PAM are irrelevant because at the moment, there is no alternative for ssh/ldap/kerberos/nfs/afs/whatever integration.

echo....

[kayen_telva]

I would like to echo the previous comments with a hearty thanks to the developers. OpenSSH rocks.

Happy birthday to OpenSSH

[roly]

Happy birthday to you, OpenSSH! Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you! Hip hip, hooray! Hip hip, hooray!

Good work OpenSSH team. Free, and it's better in 99% of areas than the commercial SSH implementation from ssh.com. Keep developing it, guys, and keep up the good work!