From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from th.inri.net ([216.126.196.42]) by ur; Tue Mar 28 11:11:31 EDT 2017 Received: (qmail 2887 invoked from network); 28 Mar 2017 15:11:30 -0000 Received: from mobile-166-175-185-144.mycingular.net (HELO ?10.221.201.89?) (sl@166.175.185.144) by th.inri.net with SMTP; 28 Mar 2017 15:11:30 -0000 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=Apple-Mail-98009D24-BD84-44B1-B61F-E423C837EF09 Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) Subject: Re: [9front] What happened to ssh2? From: Stanley Lieber X-Mailer: iPhone Mail (14D27) In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 11:11:29 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: References: To: 9front@9front.org List-ID: <9front.9front.org> List-Help: X-Glyph: ➈ X-Bullshit: advanced dependency session framework --Apple-Mail-98009D24-BD84-44B1-B61F-E423C837EF09 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mar 28, 2017, at 10:22 AM, Dave MacFarlane wrote: >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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? >=20 > - 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 v= ersion was omitted for the same reason. Recently, the old ssh1 client was al= so removed. The best option right now is mischief's scpu: http://fqa.9front.org/fqa8.html#8.4.6.3 sl --Apple-Mail-98009D24-BD84-44B1-B61F-E423C837EF09 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
On Mar 28, 2017, at 10:22 A= M, Dave MacFarlane <driusan@gmail.co= m> wrote:

I'= ve had some success connecting to modern Linux machines that are
<= span>ssh2-only with github.com/mat= tn/sshgo, but while looking into if I
could make it a li= ttle smarter about things like getting credentials
from fact= otum 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 pa= rt 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 Pla= n 9 (rewritten by Geoff) was never added to 9front because it sucks. The ori= ginal 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:

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