Re: SSH, Telnet and FTP
FWIW, last I checked MacPorts SSH doesn’t compile on ppc anymore.
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> 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/
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