[gentoo-user] requirement: ssh v1

2019-05-16 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
At a customer we still have to keep up an ancient Suse 6.x VM, it has a legacy and proprietary software in it which has to be kept alive. No way to move that sw to another OS, don't ask ... That VM only runs sshd v1 ... so far I kept my openssh package on the host at 7.5 via masking ... I now

Re: [gentoo-user] requirement: ssh v1

2019-05-16 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 5/16/19 6:44 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > Will I be able to install such a "kept old" gentoo machine from scratch > or does some have a better idea? > Does it *need* SSHv1, or does the default sshd *run* SSHv1? If it's the latter, you might be able to compile a newer OpenSSH from sour

Re: [gentoo-user] requirement: ssh v1

2019-05-16 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 16.05.19 um 14:09 schrieb Michael Orlitzky: > On 5/16/19 6:44 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> >> Will I be able to install such a "kept old" gentoo machine from scratch >> or does some have a better idea? >> > > Does it *need* SSHv1, or does the default sshd *run* SSHv1? It *is* SSHv1 ... v

Re: [gentoo-user] requirement: ssh v1

2019-05-16 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 8:09 AM Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > Otherwise, your best bet is to install a modern Gentoo system, and then > downgrade OpenSSH. > ++ assuming it builds, which it probably would. I'd just stick the old ebuild in an overlay and mask out the gentoo repo for that package (I

Re: [gentoo-user] requirement: ssh v1

2019-05-16 Thread Poison BL.
On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 6:45 AM Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > > At a customer we still have to keep up an ancient Suse 6.x VM, it has a > legacy and proprietary software in it which has to be kept alive. > > No way to move that sw to another OS, don't ask ... > Any chance to just attach to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New Intel CPU flaws discovered

2019-05-16 Thread Adam Carter
> > something even worse. Since rebooting is when those tend to > fail/break/whatever, it is yet another reason I avoid rebooting. I take the opposite approach. If I update the kernel and reboot often, I see the following benefits; - Each increment in version is smaller, therefore there's less c

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New Intel CPU flaws discovered

2019-05-16 Thread Andrew Udvare
> On May 17, 2019, at 01:14, Adam Carter wrote: > > The classic one is where OPS haven't noticed that disks in a RAID array have > died years ago... This really happened?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New Intel CPU flaws discovered

2019-05-16 Thread Adam Carter
> > > The classic one is where OPS haven't noticed that disks in a RAID array > have died years ago... > > This really happened? > Yeah. Spent huge money on NMSes but then didn't spend the relatively small amount on thorough integration to make it really worthwhile... It seems common to me that co