fbsd11 & sshv1

[Michael Toth]

On 1/31/2017 3:17 PM, heasley wrote:
> Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 01:24:29PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav:
>> heasley <heas at shrubbery.net> writes:
>>> Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no> writes:
>>>> FreeBSD 10 supports SSHv1 and will continue to do so.  FreeBSD 11
>>>> and 12 do not, and neither does the openssh-portable port.  I'm
>>>> afraid you will have to find some other SSH client.
>>> That is sad;
>>
>> You know what would be even sadder?  If the OpenSSH developers had to
>> continue to devote significant resources to maintaining a rat's nest of
>> legacy code so 0.0001% of their users could continue to use an obsolete
>> protocol to connect to obsolete equipment, instead of devoting those
>> same resources to developing new features and improving existing ones.
>> Especially when those users have plenty of alternatives to choose from,
>> including but not limited to security/putty.
>
> I was not suggesting that openssl maintain their apparently messy code;
> they're maintaining it already, for whatever the remaining period is.
> i'm suggesting a port with a v1 client; that is built with all the other
> binary ports for abi changes and whatever else is reasonable.  yes, i
> can build my own, but i feel it should be a port.
>
> I appreciate the putty suggestion, but it appears to be graphical only.
> Happy to have it pointed-out that I've missed a port having v1.
>
> i also understand the devote position of buy new equipment to advance
> security; its simply not going to happen anytime soon.  and i'm not alone.
> i'm not rich, i don't crontrol depreciation schedules, etc etc.
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There is a non-graphical port of putty (putty-nogtk) which installs plink