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  • Install SSH Octane2 IRIX 6.5

    From Rob Craig@21:1/5 to All on Tue Feb 23 08:02:00 2021
    Hi,
    I'm a little new to IRIX so sorry for the basic question.
    How can I install SSH and enable it? I see its not installed on my system and no configurations under /etc

    Regards,

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  • From John-Paul Stewart@21:1/5 to Rob Craig on Wed Feb 24 15:21:00 2021
    On 2021-02-23 11:02 a.m., Rob Craig wrote:
    Hi,
    I'm a little new to IRIX so sorry for the basic question. How can I
    install SSH and enable it? I see its not installed on my
    system and no configurations under /etc

    Which specific subversion of IRIX 6.5? I'm not sure when SSH was added.
    The original 6.5.0 does not seem to have it; by 6.5.30 it was included
    with the base system.

    For all of 6.5.x it was also available on the SGI "Freeware" CDs (disk
    3, specifically) as fw_openssh with slightly different prerequisites and configuration.

    At this point, I don't know which version is more up-to-date, but either
    will be at least 15 years old since that's how long IRIX has been
    discontinued.

    You might be better off getting a newer version (although probably still
    out of date) from one of the IRIX enthusiast community efforts.
    Nekoware was popular but is now defunct. Its OpenSSH package can still
    be found at http://ftp.irixnet.org/nekoware/current/ Beware that you'll
    also need to download and install its dependencies manually.

    My best advice is to join one of the IRIX community web forums and ask
    there. https://forums.irixnet.org/ is the one I use. It gets a lot
    more traffic than this newsgroup. There is also https://forums.sgi.sh/
    but I'm not very familiar with that site. Either one is more likely to
    be of more help than the newsgroups these days, sadly.

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  • From Alice Margatoid@21:1/5 to Rob Craig on Sat Jun 5 15:22:41 2021
    On 23/02/2021 16:02, Rob Craig wrote:
    Hi,
    I'm a little new to IRIX so sorry for the basic question.
    How can I install SSH and enable it? I see its not installed on my system and no configurations under /etc

    The newest SSH client/server you can use on IRIX would be dropbear, it's included in /opt/xeno, http://ftp.irixnet.org/setup/optxeno-mips4.tar.gz

    As for SSHd, Make sure /opt/xeno/sbin is in PATH and then you can
    generate a key for SSH,
    dropbear -r /path/to/key



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  • From Alice Margatroid@21:1/5 to Rob Craig on Sat Jun 5 15:21:51 2021
    On 23/02/2021 16:02, Rob Craig wrote:
    Hi,
    I'm a little new to IRIX so sorry for the basic question.
    How can I install SSH and enable it? I see its not installed on my system and no configurations under /etc

    The newest SSH client/server you can use on IRIX would be dropbear, it's included in /opt/xeno, http://ftp.irixnet.org/setup/optxeno-mips4.tar.gz

    As for SSHd, Make sure /opt/xeno/sbin is in PATH and then you can
    generate a key for SSH,
    dropbear -r /path/to/key



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