Well, that's a good thing, some security experts might say, since those
older versions of SSH have been found to have vulnerabilites and should
no longer be used. Which would be a great argument if it were always
possible to run the latest operating system on all platforms. The
problem is that some of those SSH clients live in operating systems that can't be upgraded, such as Mac OS 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) or Mac OS
10.13.6 (High Sierra) on some hardware.
I should probably send this request to the SSH upstream developers, but
it's likely that none of them would be interested in bringing back older features that are deemed to be less secure, unless a major distribution
(such as Debian) supports the effort.
I could also install my own copy of an older version of SSH, but sooner
or later older versions will no longer compile on modern GNU/Linux distributions. Or I could just keep using telnet and ftp over already-secure internal networks.
[1] https://ports.macports.org/port/openssh/
On Jun 11, 2022, at 9:21 PM, Christian Calderon <calderonchristian73@gmail.com> wrote:
FWIW, last I checked MacPorts SSH doesn’t compile on ppc anymore.
On Jun 11, 2022, at 8:53 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
Hello!
On 6/11/22 17:47, Stan Johnson wrote:
Well, that's a good thing, some security experts might say, since those
older versions of SSH have been found to have vulnerabilites and should
no longer be used. Which would be a great argument if it were always
possible to run the latest operating system on all platforms. The
problem is that some of those SSH clients live in operating systems that
can't be upgraded, such as Mac OS 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) or Mac OS
10.13.6 (High Sierra) on some hardware.
Are you sure you can't just install a more recent version of OpenSSH on
these machines? At least Macports has OpenSSH 9.0 which should still work fine on older version of OSX [1].
I should probably send this request to the SSH upstream developers, but
it's likely that none of them would be interested in bringing back older
features that are deemed to be less secure, unless a major distribution
(such as Debian) supports the effort.
Well, at least the Debian PowerPC mailing list is probably the wrong list
to ask but rather debian-devel.
I could also install my own copy of an older version of SSH, but sooner
or later older versions will no longer compile on modern GNU/Linux
distributions. Or I could just keep using telnet and ftp over already-secure >> internal networks.
Or just install a newer client version on the older operating systems. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Adrian
[1] https://ports.macports.org/port/openssh/
--
.''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
: :' : Debian Developer
`. `' Physicist
`- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
On Jun 11, 2022, at 12:26 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
On Jun 11, 2022, at 9:21 PM, Christian Calderon <calderonchristian73@gmail.com> wrote:
FWIW, last I checked MacPorts SSH doesn’t compile on ppc anymore.
Not sure why it shouldn’t though.
If not, try Homebrew. We have the latest versions of the GNU and LLVM toolchain on 32-bit PowerPC after all
Adrian
Sysop: | Keyop |
---|---|
Location: | Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, UK |
Users: | 296 |
Nodes: | 16 (2 / 14) |
Uptime: | 38:27:09 |
Calls: | 6,648 |
Files: | 12,193 |
Messages: | 5,329,245 |