[OpenIndiana-discuss] ssh to servers with recent openssh

[Predrag Zečević - Unix Systems Administrator]

On 05/11/16 07:24 PM, Tim Mooney wrote:
> In regard to: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ssh to servers with recent openssh,
> Kim...:
>
>> I have troubles connecting ssh to servers with newer openssh version doe
>> to no common kex algorithm.
>> Is there a way to fix this without changing the remote server config?
>
> I've seen the same, and the issue was discussed on the list in the past.
>
> OpenIndiana's default SSH (client and server) dates from the days when
> Sun had their own fork of ssh -- I forget which branch theirs derives
> from, but it's not from (portable) OpenSSH.
>
> If you have the 'sfe' package publisher added on your OI system, there's
> a 'network/openssh' package that contains OpenSSH 6.2.2 clients.  I
> haven't tried it, but it will probably have support for newer algorithms
> than the default (Sun) ssh.
>
>> 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'
>>
>
> Tim

Hi,

Latest /hipster has latest OpenSSH available (not linked against 
Kerberos 5 yet, but still usable):

$ pkg list openssh
NAME (PUBLISHER)                                  VERSION 
      IFO
network/openssh                                   7.2.0.2-2016.0.0.0 
      i--


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