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

[Gary Mills]

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 03:27:04PM -0500, James Carlson wrote:
> Milan Jurik wrote:
> 
> > 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.

Even better would be to feed the Sun changes into the upstream ssh
repository.  There must be solid reasons why these changes exist.
Maybe they would be useful on other platforms as well.

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