OpenSSH 3.9 released (fwd)

[Bob Rasmussen]

On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:

> Bob Rasmussen propounded (on Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 08:18:48AM -0700):
> | I thought you guys might be interested in this. Of particular interest, I
> | think, is the ability to tell the daemon to accept certain environment
> | variables sent from the client.
>
> So far as I can see, that ability was in prior releases of OpenSSH as
> well, providing you have PermitUserEnvironment=yes in the sshd_config file.

No, that's not the same thing.

What you refer to is environment variables being set by the server, as
configured on the server.

What is new is the ability to send environment variables to the server
from the client.

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....Bob Rasmussen,   President,   Rasmussen Software, Inc.

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