Chapter 4. Installation and Compile-Time Configuration

Now that you know what SSH is and how it works, where do you get it and how do you install it? This chapter surveys several popular and robust implementations of SSH and explains how to obtain, compile, and install them:

OpenSSH

A free implementation, originally part of OpenBSD, and available for many other operating systems including Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, and Windows.

Tectia

A suite of commercial products from SSH Communications Security Corp., that run on a variety of platforms including Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, and Windows. Formerly known as SSH2 and SSH Secure Shell.

Non-Unix implementations of SSH are covered in Chapters 13,14,15,16,17,-18.

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