git: Remove most local modifications from OpenSSH.

[Konstantin Kulikov]

Passwords are sent over encrypted channel, so only the server you connect
to can see the password. Same happens when challenge-response
authentication is used.

On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 11:29 PM Thomas Nikolajsen <
thomas.nikolajsen at mail.dk> wrote:

> This commit changed our sshd(8) default: now cleartext passwords are
> enabled.
> I don't think this is what we want.
>
> I do understand that complicated and non essential patches are too much
> work to maintain,
> but this is simple and essential IMO. Hope you agree.
>
>  -thomas
>
> http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/commits/2016-August/624229.html
>
> commit f0ea6a7a164d1e1add5907937994265e906d96a3
> Author: Peter Avalos <pavalos at dragonflybsd.org>
> Date:   Wed Aug 3 18:25:04 2016 -0700
>
>     Remove most local modifications from OpenSSH.
>
>     This primarily removes the HPN patches. It's become too cumbersome to
>     maintain these patches as demonstrated by the fact that we haven't
>     updated OpenSSH in quite some time. If people want additional
>     functionality in their OpenSSH, it's available in dports
>     (security/openssh).
>
>     Instead of just silently ignoring removed options in people's
>     configurations, I decided to treat these as errors so that the admin
>     will need to decide to remove it from their configuration or install
> the
>     dport to get the functionality back.
>
> Summary of changes:
>  ..
> crypto/openssh/ssh_config       |   5 +-
>  ..
>
> http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/commitdiff/f0ea6a7a164d1e1add5907937994265e906d96a3
> ->
> ..
> diff --git a/crypto/openssh/sshd_config b/crypto/openssh/sshd_config
> -# We disable cleartext passwords by default
> -PasswordAuthentication no
> +#PasswordAuthentication yes
> ..
>
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