The story of the SSH port is 22.
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The SSH port is 22. This is the story of how it got that port number. And practical configuration instructions.
  • DefederateLemmyMlEnglish
    270·
    8 months ago

    It was a company almost from the start. In the mid 90s Tatu Ylonen created ssh v1 and released it as freeware, then shortly afterwards apparently he regretted it and created ssh v2, made it proprietary and commercialized it with his company.

    In the late 90s some OpenBSD guys then forked the unencumbered ssh v1 source to create OpenSSH and implemented ssh v2 with it and their ssh version eventually gained traction and became dominant.

      • DefederateLemmyMlEnglish
        90·
        8 months ago

        Tatu was also a bit of a d*ck about the thing. There were some GPL violations when he made the licensing more restrictive, and at one point he accused the OpenSSH project of violating his trademark, even though his original license permitted the use of the ssh name.

    • Baut [she/her] auf.
      40·
      8 months ago

      As freeware or free software? Because if it was freeware, I don’t understand how OpenBSD could have forked it