ssh compatibility question

[William H. Magill]

On 10 Jan, 2005, at 04:51, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-Dec-29 16:31:47 -0500, William H. Magill wrote:
>> Ok, I have FreeBSD 5.3 running on one Alpha and Tru64 Unix on another.
>
> You don't mention which Tru64 you are running but 5.1B includes a
> commercial ssh2 implementation and can be configured to use OpenSSH
> for SSH1.  (Unfortunately, the configuration files are completely
> different and incompatible with OpenSSH).

5.1.a -- But if you would look down the message a bit, you would see:

SSH Version 1.2.27 [alpha-dec-osf5.1], protocol version 1.5.

The problem with upgrading (building) ssh on Tru64 from 1.2.27 to
OpenSSH_3.8.1p1 turns out to be all of the pre-requisites.
There are more of them, and they less than trivially upgraded, than
it first appears. (The setloads I found have even more problems.)

After spending about 18 hours on the project, I have abandoned it
in favor of simply transferring things via OSX which can talk to
both versions of ssh.

Of course, if Freebsd-alpha could deal with BSD disk labels, then
there would be no problem at all. I could just cross mount the disks
as I can between Tru64 and SuSE (nice thing about StoragWorks shelves).

... note that I'm believing the documentation here -- which says that
a FreeBSD disk is not compatible with any other "xBSD" or Linux. And
the fact that I know that TRU64 labeled disks were not acceptable to
bsdlabel on FreeBSD when I tried to mount them.

T.T.F.N.
William H. Magill
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