[16476] in Athena Bugs
Re: SSH
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeremy Daniel)
Mon Nov 9 16:36:22 1998
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 16:36:18 -0500 (EST)
From: Jeremy Daniel <jdaniel@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>, crypto-maintainers@MIT.EDU
Cc: sly@leonardo.mit.edu, bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[16472] in Athena Bugs"
sly> I'm currently running ssh 2.0.10 on several of my machines.
sly> Unfortunately even with backward compatibility set, I'm running
sly> into compatibility issues with athena. According to the 2.0.10
sly> readme, 2.0.10 is backwards compatible with 1.2.26 and no lower
sly> versions. Unfortunately athena is running 1.2.23 (at least the
sly> suns are). Basically this means currently I just lose. Are
sly> there any plans to upgrade SSH versions any time soon to better deal
sly> with the compatibility issues?
ghudson> Third-party package upgrades are not normally the subject of
ghudson> patch releases; they are too destabilizing. We could try to
ghudson> retrofit particular protocol changes if they were small. But
ghudson> right now I don't think we understand the problem at all.
Assuming you're talking about the client, perhaps this is something
better destined for a locker. Since crypto has the old version of ssh
installed, it might be the right place....
Jer
