GT 4.0.2 Incremental Release Notes: GSI-OpenSSH

1. Introduction

These release notes are for the incremental release 4.0.2. It includes a summary of changes since 4.0.2, bug fixes since 4.0.2 and any known problems that still exist at the time of the 4.0.2 release. This page is in addition to the top-level 4.0.2 release notes at http://www.globus.org/toolkit/releasenotes/4.0.2.

For release notes about 4.0 (including feature summary, technology dependencies, etc) go to the GSI-OpenSSH 4.0 Release Notes.

2. Changes Summary

The following changes have occurred for GSI-OpenSSH:

  • Updated GPT package from 3.5 to 3.7.
  • Moved to OpenSSH 4.2p1.
  • Incorporated openssh-4.2p1-gsskex-20050926-2.patch from Simon Wilkinson adding support for gssapi-keyex authentication method (http://www.sxw.org.uk/computing/patches/openssh.html).
  • Incorporated High Performance Networking (HPN) patch (openssh-4.2p1-hpn11-none.diff) from Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (http://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/hpn-ssh/) for improved network throughput over long and high bandwidth links.
  • Enabled PAM password authentication by default, unless PAM library and headers are unusable.
  • Added server-side GSIAllowLimitedProxy option to enable acceptance of limited proxy credentials.

3. Bug Fixes

The following bugs were fixed for GSI-OpenSSH:

  • Bug 300: Only delegate credentials if GSI authentication is used.

4. Known Problems

No problems are known to exist for GSI-OpenSSH at the time of the 4.0.2 release.

5. For More Information

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