[lug] RHEL WS vs ES

[D. Frye]

Andrew Gilmore wrote:
> It would be a pretty poor workstation that did not allow remote ssh
> logins. I have a hard time believing that they would not support this.
> 
> Mail or Web serving, perhaps, but ssh? My mind boggles.
> 
> Can we confirm that sshd or openssh-server.*.rpm is not included in RHEL
> WS?
> 
> Andrew
> 
> On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 16:44, John Hernandez wrote:
> 
>>Gary Hodges wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I just called Red Hat, and maybe I didn't ask the right questions, but
>>>I'm unclear on the differences between WS and ES.  Yes, I see capability
>>>listings under each at the Red Hat site, but I'm unclear if I would be
>>>able to run any ES capability on a WS system.  And more specifically,
>>>would up2date work for a ES only package installed on a WS system?
>>>
>>>Specifically I'm thinking about ssh.  OK, now that I'm looking at the ES
>>>capability list again I see that it lists SSL, not SSH.  I don't know if
>>>SSL is required by SSH, but assuming it is, which for the sake of this
>>>post isn't really necessary, but anyway...  If I purchased a WS version
>>>and installed SSL, then a security errata for SSL is released, does
>>>anyone know if up2date would identify SSL on the WS system and update
>>>the package?
>>
>>In the case of SSH, the answer appears to be "yes."  See:
>>ftp://updates.redhat.com:/enterprise/2.1WS/en/os/SRPMS/openssh*.rpm
>>
>>I'm pretty sure you can compile that and end up with the openssh-server 
>>RPM.  Now, I can't say for sure that RHN will provide the binary 
>>openssh-server RPMs for a WS license, but it's pretty trivial to get 
>>from A to B in this case.
>>
>>In the more general case, I don't know if you can get unsupported 
>>server-type updates over RHN with a WS license.

At work, I'm in the process of playing/learning/installing RHEL WS 2.1, 
and I have installed (default selection, IIRC) an SSH server for remote 
access. Also to note, they default the telnet service to "off" and there 
appears to be no selection option for wu-ftpd. I've found that the 7.2 
RPM for wu-ftpd installs just fine, so doing that and enabling it in 
xinetd we can use ftp, even though it is not listed as a "supported 
service".

David

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