[OmniOS-discuss] openssh on omnios

[Dan McDonald]

I knew Joyent was working on this.  I hope they upstream it soon.  I have 7.1p1 in the upcoming bloody, with only the light patching already in omnios-build, plus the recent Lauri T changes.

Dan

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On Sep 3, 2015, at 5:37 PM, Paul B. Henson <henson at acm.org> wrote:

>> From: Dan McDonald
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2015 7:16 AM
>> 
>> I think the packaging update may be a bit more complicated than just
> pushing
>> out openssh, but I don't think it's untenable.
> 
> Just wondering if there was any further news on this. Joyent just pushed out
> a change to their illumos branch that removes SunSSH completely and replaces
> it with OpenSSH which made me think about it :). They actually tweaked
> upstream OpenSSH to accept some of the SunSSH specific options and in a
> couple other minor ways be more compatible as a drop in replacement.
> Personally I don't care about that, vanilla openssh would work for me :),
> but their changes might be of interest to other omnios users, or if openssh
> becomes the default omnios ssh implementation rather than an optional after
> install replacement.
> 
> Thanks.
>