OpenSSH 3.9 released (fwd)

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

Ken Brody propounded (on Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 07:20:32PM -0400):
| Bob Rasmussen wrote:
| [...]
| > > 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.
| 
| In case anyone hasn't noticed...
| 
| Haven't you wondered how TERM gets set when you telnet in, when the host
| has no idea what type of terminal you're using?  The telnet init protocol
| has the ability to tell the server the value of TERM, which it then adds
| to the environment.  (I'm not sure if it allows other variables to be set.)
| 
| I assume that Bob is saying that it now supports the setting of any
| environment variable "name=value" pair?

That's what I thought he was saying too, but so far as I can see, that
is not anything new in 3.9p1.

-- 
JP