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From: "Greg Jewell" <greg17@jewell.deletethis.net>
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Subject: Re: SSH for SCO OSR5.x
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 13:50:33 -0700


"Roberto Zini" <r.zini@strhold.it> wrote in message
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> Darryl Krasman wrote:
> >
> > Don Yakubowski wrote:
> > > Thanks for the source Roberto.
> > > I was wondering if you could tell us if there are any specific reasons
why
> > > the binaries are based on 2.2.0p1, and not more current releases? Are
there
> > > issues with more recent
> > > versions that you came across that we should all know about?
> >
> > Perhaps Roberto was just offering a version he is familiar with and
> > knows is a working solution. Doesn't really mean *that* version is the
> > latest/greatest.
>
> [snip]
>
> Apart from offering the version I'm familiar with, I have to say that I
> downloaded SSH version 2.3.0p1 some weeks ago but I didn't find the
> time to compile it yet :-(
>
> However, given my experience with 2.2.0p1, if you happen to compile it
> under either SCO OS 5 or UW7, it's just a matter of "./configure"
> followed by "make" (after installing and configuring SSL, of course :-)
>
> I'll try to compile the newest/greatest version as soon as I have the
> time (uhm ... perhaps I could manage to find a reasonable time frame
> in the next millennium, given the current amount of work I'm snowed
> under with :-)
>

OpenSSH 2.3.0p1 does not compile under SCO.  Actually, there is a trick that
will get it to compile, but then the sshd binary that is created is not
really usable.  If all you need is the client, then it's no big deal.  (The
problem actually lies in the configure script -- it never seems to find
OpenSSL, no matter what you do.)

OpenSSH 2.5.1p2 compiles under OpenServer, but there is a problem in the
sftp-server.c source code.  There are 3 instances where it tries to cast to
a variable to an unsigned long long.  The native SCO compiler doesn't
support this.  Under gcc, the compile works, but if somebody tries to sftp
into the box, the file names aren't displayed.  (There is a column between
the date the file was last modified and the file size that shows "(null)",
and prevents the column for the filename from being displayed.)  You can
change these casts from "unsigned long long" to "unsigned long", and it
appears to work.  Since the only thing the cast is used for is to send
something to the display, I don't know that this is a terrible problem.
Obviously, though, this is not ideal and would not recommend it otherwise.

I hope this helps,
Greg

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