On Mar 28, 2017, at 10:22 AM, Dave MacFarlane <driusan@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I've had some success connecting to modern Linux machines that are
> ssh2-only with github.com/mattn/sshgo, but while looking into if I
> could make it a little smarter about things like getting credentials
> from factotum or stripping \r from the output, I noticed that Plan 9
> already has an ssh2 command which is missing from 9front.
> 
> Why was it removed? Is there an alternative that's already part of the
> base system I could use instead of having to write something?
> 
> - Dave

The ssh2 client that was added to the Labs distribution of Plan 9 (rewritten by Geoff) was never added to 9front because it sucks. The original Coraid version was omitted for the same reason. Recently, the old ssh1 client was also removed.

The best option right now is mischief's scpu:

http://fqa.9front.org/fqa8.html#8.4.6.3

sl