On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Sam Carleton wrote:

> Ok, I have been running NetBSD for a couple years now.  In
> all my past systems (currently a firewall), I have
> downloaded the source to ssh and sshd and simply installed
> them outside of the pkgsrc.
>
> It is my understandint that OpenSSH is more secure and is
> also open where ssh2 is commercial software.
>
> I have installed NetBSD 1.6.1 on a machine, how to I get
> OpenSSH's sshd up and running be default?  I know that it
> is not running because I cannot ssh into the machine.
>
> Sam
>

Add the following line to /etc/rc.conf:

sshd=YES

This will also auto-generate the keys on next boot.

Florian