[OpenIndiana-discuss] Replacing OI 151 ssh with OpenSSH 5.9?

[Milan Jurik]

Hi James,

James Carlson píše v út 17. 01. 2012 v 13:06 -0500:
> Gregory Youngblood wrote:
> > I was looking into swapping out the ssh that comes with oi151a with openssh 5.9. I already looked in SFE and didn't see openssh, unless I missed it.
> > 
> > I pulled the source and it seems to compile OK, though without tcp wrappers, PAM, etc. The first pass was more to see what would happen before spending any real time on it. 
> > 
> > Before going further, I was wondering if anyone else has done this and whether they have any tips, instructions, or insights.
> 
> Why would you want to do that ... ?  It might help in getting useful
> responses if you described what you were hoping to accomplish by
> replacing that component.
> 
> For what it's worth, the ssh that comes with OpenIndiana is well
> integrated with the existing OS features and performs decently.  You may
> end up replicating the hard work the Sun ssh team did getting it integrated.
> 

in long term you will need to do the switch anyway as it is unlikely
somebody will dedicate full-time taking care about improvements and also
sync with OpenSSH forever as SUN did. Otherwise "IllumosSSH" will loose
contact with the latest versions.

It would be much better to identify the needed parts and deliver them as
patch on top of OpenSSH releases.

Best regards,

Milan