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
