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authorTheo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>1998-04-04 22:53:02 +0000
committerTheo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>1998-04-04 22:53:02 +0000
commit6253dd1507808ebf3f41595102d38a04c116deca (patch)
treee4e8118e3f68620a236747c3fd6dff604f83aab3 /etc/root
parentadf25bd83f3ba8df80f56a0d31bdf858a5a13787 (diff)
talk about ssh/pgp
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@@ -15,13 +15,20 @@ type "man man" at a shell prompt and read the entire thing. The GNU "info"
subsystem is also installed with further documentation resources; to read
info pages type "info".
-If you have installed the X11 packages during the install process, you can
-find further information in the file /usr/X11R6/README.
+If you have installed the X11 packages during the install process, you can find
+further information in the file /usr/X11R6/README.
-Binary packages of emacs 20.2, bash 2.01.1, tcsh--6.07.02, and pine-3.96
-are available on most architectures. The files are in the directory
+Binary packages of emacs 20.2, bash 2.01.1, tcsh--6.07.02, and pine-3.96 are
+available on most architectures. The files are in the directory
ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.3/packages/
or CD2:/packages/ (ie. mount /dev/cd0a /mnt; cd /mnt/packages)
-Select your architecture and download the tarballs of your choice. To
-install issue the command `pkg_add <pkg-name>' as root.
+Select your architecture and download the tarballs of your choice. For example
+to install the emacs package for i386, execute
+ # pkg_add ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.3/packages/i386/emacs-20.2.tgz
+Other important packages not permitted on the CD (due to patents) are available
+on our FTP servers (as described above). In particular, we provide the USA and
+international versions of ssh and pgp. The filenames are ssh-usa-1.2.22.tgz,
+ssh-intl-1.2.22.tgz, pgp-usa-2.6.3.tgz, and pgp-intl-2.6.3.tgz.
+
+You are strongly urged to install ssh and use it instead of telnet or rlogin.