What happened to ssh2?

What happened to ssh2?

[Dave MacFarlane]

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

Re: [9front] What happened to ssh2?

[Stanley Lieber]

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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


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Re: [9front] What happened to ssh2?

[Aram Hăvărneanu]

On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 5:11 PM, Stanley Lieber <sl@stanleylieber.com> wrote:
> The ssh2 client that was added to the Labs distribution of Plan 9 (rewritten
> by Geoff) was never added to 9front because it sucks.

Happy user of ssh2 here.

-- 
Aram Hăvărneanu

Re: [9front] What happened to ssh2?

[Kurt H Maier]

On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 09:03:57PM +0200, Aram Hăvărneanu wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 5:11 PM, Stanley Lieber <sl@stanleylieber.com> wrote:
> > The ssh2 client that was added to the Labs distribution of Plan 9 (rewritten
> > by Geoff) was never added to 9front because it sucks.
> 
> Happy user of ssh2 here.
> 

Which one?  The Labs one or the Coraid one?

khm

Re: [9front] What happened to ssh2?

[Aram Hăvărneanu]

On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 9:05 PM, Kurt H Maier <khm@sciops.net> wrote:
> Which one?  The Labs one or the Coraid one?

I can't remember. I guess the Labs one.

-- 
Aram Hăvărneanu

Re: [9front] What happened to ssh2?

[Stanley Lieber]

On Mar 28, 2017, at 3:09 PM, Aram Hăvărneanu <aram.h@mgk.ro> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 9:05 PM, Kurt H Maier <khm@sciops.net> wrote:
>> Which one?  The Labs one or the Coraid one?
> 
> I can't remember. I guess the Labs one.

ymmv

sl

Re: [9front] What happened to ssh2?

[Steve Simon]

Yep, ssh2 works fine for me.

Geoff's changes where more stylistic rather than substance,
either should be good.

-Steve

Re: [9front] What happened to ssh2?

[ori]

> 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 'ssh' command implements ssh2, at least for modern ciphers.

Re: [9front] What happened to ssh2?

[ori]

...And somehow I managed to not realize I was responding to an ancient
email. Please disregard my stupidity.