Long time, no release...
I've been using the client part of the new experimental branch for a
couple of weeks now, so I think it's time.
News for the 2.9-exp release
This is not a regular release, it's the current state of the
development version. "exp" for "experimental". New things:
* Server split into three main programs; lshd, lshd-userauth
and lshd-connection, to reduce the amount of code that is
running with root privileges.
* The server programs use configuration files, in addition
to the command line options.
* Client split into two programs, lsh and lsh-transport. By
default, lsh tries to use a gateway, and lshg is just a
shell script that invokes lsh with options to make it
unconditionally use a gateway, or fail if none is present.
Missing features and known problems:
* The server in the current version will not listen on
anything but localhost. I don't recommend using the server
in this version for anything but testing.
* Server supports publickey authentication only.
* Internal flow-control is not fully implemented. Programs
may exit (in a controlled fashion) if some channel or
socket is overwhelmed with data.
* Client does not support any escape key.
* PTY support, using the lshd-pty-helper program, has some
portability problems.
* The manual is not up-to-date.
Interfaces, including the syntax of the configuration files
and the protocols used for communication betwen the various
processes, may change in the next version of lsh.
Available at
http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/archive/lsh-2.9-exp.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.lysator.liu.se/pub/security/lsh/lsh-2.9-exp.tar.gz
Happy hacking,
/Niels
