1) It eliminated the need for my horrible kludge patch-ad
2) 1.2.12 has data stream compression (like gzip).
(I'm talking with the author about the remining three patches)
patch-ac: call setsid() before setlogin() in the child (when emulating rsh)
otherwise the setlogin() will fail when/if the proposed setlogin() changes
go in. Otherwise it silently fails and may leave the login name of the user
session as "root" (depending on how sshd was started). Without the proposed
kernel change, it harmlessly sets the login name of the user's session.
patch-ad: patch the #ifdef botch that stopped a ssh login from using and
updating the lastlog file. This is because we have struct lastlog defined
inside utmp.h rather than a lastlog.h include file like it was expecting.
(.rhosts together with RSA based host authentication, and pure RSA
authentication) and improved privacy (all communications are automatically
and transparently encrypted).
