• OpenSSH for AIX 4.3.3 unavailable?

    From Christian Holzapfel@21:1/5 to All on Mon Nov 22 07:45:45 2021
    They say the internet never forgets, but...

    I heard that

    openssh-3.*.aix4.3.ppc.rpm
    openssh-clients-3.*.aix4.3.ppc.rpm
    openssh-server-3.*.aix4.3.ppc.rpm

    once were available for download from IBM's AIX TOOLbox Cryptographic Content, after registration.
    Today the site is down and the Cryptographic Content is unavailable. Archive.org is of no help there.

    openssh-3.7.1.0.bff is available through https://web.archive.org/web/20061209222024/http://www.bullfreeware.com/listaix43.html
    but the openssh-clients- and -server- are not.

    Are there copies still floating around?

    Cheers,
    Christian

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  • From Christian Holzapfel@21:1/5 to All on Tue Nov 23 06:50:14 2021
    Hi Thomas,
    glad to hear someone's still active here.
    That's a useful site, definitely worth a dump.
    But no OpenSSH unfortunately, and nothing for AIX 4.3.3. All starting at 5.1.

    I'm aware of the security issues of these old SSH implementations, and I consider it for inhouse remote tinkering only - definitely not a sensitive application.

    If I get desperate enough, I might give the Raspi a try...

    Christian

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  • From Thomas Jahns@21:1/5 to Christian Holzapfel on Tue Nov 23 15:35:37 2021
    In my experience, this site provided (and perhaps continues to provide) freeware
    compiled for AIX:

    https://www.perzl.org/aix/

    unless you really need 4.3.3 at which point I'd recommend to use a serial connnection through some more up-to-date hardware like a raspberry pi.

    Thomas


    On 2021-11-22 16:45, Christian Holzapfel wrote:
    They say the internet never forgets, but...

    I heard that

    openssh-3.*.aix4.3.ppc.rpm
    openssh-clients-3.*.aix4.3.ppc.rpm
    openssh-server-3.*.aix4.3.ppc.rpm

    once were available for download from IBM's AIX TOOLbox Cryptographic Content, after registration.
    Today the site is down and the Cryptographic Content is unavailable. Archive.org is of no help there.

    openssh-3.7.1.0.bff is available through https://web.archive.org/web/20061209222024/http://www.bullfreeware.com/listaix43.html
    but the openssh-clients- and -server- are not.

    Are there copies still floating around?

    Cheers,
    Christian


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  • From Grant Taylor@21:1/5 to Christian Holzapfel on Tue Nov 23 09:14:37 2021
    On 11/23/21 7:50 AM, Christian Holzapfel wrote:
    I'm aware of the security issues of these old SSH implementations,
    and I consider it for inhouse remote tinkering only - definitely not
    a sensitive application.

    Do you /need/ to SSH /to/ AIX running on the RS/6000? Or could you SSH
    to /something/ and have it initiate an unencrypted connection to AIX?

    If the latter will work for you, consider something like the following:

    # ssh -W ${AIX_IP}:${AIX_PORT} ${SSH_BASTION}

    That will ssh to the SSH_BASTION and establish a TCP connection to
    AIX_PORT on AIX_IP. Thus your /client/ computer initiates an SSH
    connection to the SSH_BASTION and subsequently sees the connection
    similar as if it had done a telnet all the way to the AIX machine. I
    think this is a decent intermediate bridge solution that means a modern
    client is only using standard SSH connections.



    --
    Grant. . . .
    unix || die

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  • From home" @21:1/5 to Christian Holzapfel on Thu Nov 25 19:10:29 2021
    Christian Holzapfel wrote:
    They say the internet never forgets, but...

    I heard that

    openssh-3.*.aix4.3.ppc.rpm
    openssh-clients-3.*.aix4.3.ppc.rpm
    openssh-server-3.*.aix4.3.ppc.rpm

    once were available for download from IBM's AIX TOOLbox Cryptographic Content, after registration.

    are you sure?
    I don't remember openssh ever was available on the toolbox CDs.
    For AIX 5+ it came on the Expansion pack CDs and eventually IBM
    managed to put it on the OS media.
    I run a 4.3.3 box with ssh client and server,
    istr it is the Bull version.

    Today the site is down and the Cryptographic Content is unavailable. Archive.org is of no help there.

    openssh-3.7.1.0.bff is available through https://web.archive.org/web/20061209222024/http://www.bullfreeware.com/listaix43.html
    but the openssh-clients- and -server- are not.

    Are there copies still floating around?

    Cheers,
    Christian

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  • From Christian Holzapfel@21:1/5 to All on Tue Nov 30 10:30:32 2021
    Hi guys,
    turns out I was wrong.

    Installing
    zlib-1.1.4-3.aix4.3.ppc.rpm
    prngd-0.9.23-3.aix4.3.ppc.rpm
    openssl-0.9.6.7.bff
    openssh-3.7.1.0.bff

    is enough.

    Thank you for your input...

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