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

[James Carlson]

Milan Jurik wrote:
> 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.

I think that's actually a deeper issue, because it doesn't just apply to
the intentionally-forked SSH implementation, but rather to all of the
Illumos source.  The parts that aren't owned by someone and actively
maintained may have trouble.

I don't see with SSH would be special in this regard.

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

That's probably a bit easier said than done.  The original Sun SSH team
intentionally forked the source because there were substantial
high-level design differences, particularly in the area of privilege
separation.

Meaningful source patches for this sort of thing are probably at least
as hard to manage as are the sources themselves -- meaning that I
believe you'd have no real benefit to keeping diffs instead.

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