On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 07:53:23 -0500
Sam Carleton <scarleton-netbsdusers@miltonstreet.com> 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
> 

AFAIK, OpenSSH supports both ssh versions and is part of the base
system. 
I mean, it *is* part of the base system, and from what I've read in the
documentation, it support ssh2, too.

Just add the following line to rc.conf:

sshd=YES

Kind regards,

Benjamin

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