[OpenIndiana-discuss] Sun ssh no work with recent OpenSSH

[Bayard Bell]

You can't because the crypto's not there, and if you're not root you can't
get around the changes to defaults. There's a series of changes to sunssh
pending against upstream as issue 5414.

On 26 December 2014 at 23:02, Harry Putnam <reader at newsguy.com> wrote:

> Running b 151_a9
>
> How can I tweak:
> pkg:/network/ssh at 0.5.11-0.151.1.9
>
> So that it will work with newly released versions of OpenSSH?
>
> Currently I see this error:
> ssh gv (`gv' is a gentoo linux box running openssh-6.7_p1-r3)
>
> ,----
> |   no common kex alg: client
> 'diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1,diffie-hellman-group1-sha1', server '
> curve25519-sha256 at libssh.org
> ,ecdh-sha2-nistp256,ecdh-sha2-nistp384,ecdh-sha2-nistp521,diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256,diffie-hellman-group14-sha1'
> `----
> They can find no common Kex algorithm.
>
> From what I understand, newer versions of OpenSSH have changed which
> algorithms it allows, and has pulled some of older less secure algo
> out of service.
>
> So apparently `Sun ssh' cannot find a an agreeable algorithm to
> cooperate with OpenSSH.
>
> I could not get enough of an idea from `man ssh' to see a way to get
> past this.
>
> Is it possible to add algorithms to our ssh?  Assume for a moment that
> I don't have root on gentoo box.  How could I make our ssh work with
> it?
>
>
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