Re: SSH Tunneling implementation

From: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
To: Akshay Joshi <akshay(dot)joshi(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, pgadmin-hackers <pgadmin-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: SSH Tunneling implementation
Date: 2012-07-09 13:42:38
Message-ID: CA+OCxoy1DNoTQG+nVyLvb3aW1b_DYsd1aMRJ9NK2hBJRSYE+mA@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Akshay Joshi
> <akshay(dot)joshi(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
>>> > On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >> On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
>>> >>>
>>> >>> We've never supported anything other than OpenSSL.
>>> >>
>>> >> For the direct linking. But the question here is what *libssh2* is
>>> >> built against, not what pgadmin is linked against.
>>> >>
>>> >> If you require the entire system to be built against openssl, then the
>>> >> feature won't work on Debian. Or Ubuntu. Or RedHat. Or Fedora. Or
>>> >> SuSE. Or any derived distros. Because they all made the decision to
>>> >> move away from openssl for any packages that support other things
>>> >> (though annoyingly enough, debian/ubuntu went towards gnutls and the
>>> >> redhat style distros went towards libnss - but that's a different
>>> >> story).
>>> >
>>> > Hmm, good point. In that case Akshay will need to figure out how to
>>> > deal with this some other way.
>>>
>>> Or at least verify that it's not just a docu snafu - it might mean
>>> "any external SSL library" or something like that.
>>
>>
>> Unable to find the way to verify it. I haven't found prebuilt libssh2
>> library on my CentOS and Ubuntu.
>
> I don't have Ubuntu to hand, but on RHEL 5 I see:
>
> [dpage(at)dominion ~]$ yum search libssh2
> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
> base
> | 1.1 kB 00:00
> base
> 2725/2725
> epel
> | 3.4 kB 00:00
> extras
> | 2.1 kB 00:00
> updates
> | 1.9 kB 00:00
> =================================================== Matched: libssh2
> ===================================================
> libssh2.i386 : A library implementing the SSH2 protocol
> libssh2-devel.i386 : Development files for libssh2
> libssh2-docs.i386 : Documentation for libssh2
>
> And on RHEL 6:
>
> [dpage(at)sturgis ~]$ yum search libssh2
> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities, security
> Determining fastest mirrors
> epel/metalink
> | 18 kB 00:00
> * base: centos.mirror.transip.nl
> * epel: nl.mirror.eurid.eu
> * extras: mirrors.coreix.net
> * updates: mirrors.coreix.net
> base
> | 3.7 kB 00:00
> epel
> | 4.0 kB 00:00
> epel/primary_db
> | 4.6 MB 00:17
> extras
> | 3.5 kB 00:00
> updates
> | 3.5 kB 00:00
> updates/primary_db
> | 4.1 MB 00:18
> ================================================= N/S Matched: libssh2
> =================================================
> libssh2-devel.i686 : Development files for libssh2
> libssh2-devel.x86_64 : Development files for libssh2
> libssh2-docs.x86_64 : Documentation for libssh2
> libssh2.i686 : A library implementing the SSH2 protocol
> libssh2.x86_64 : A library implementing the SSH2 protocol
> php-pecl-ssh2.x86_64 : Bindings for the libssh2 library
>
> Name and summary matches only, use "search all" for everything.

Sorry, they were both CentOS, not RHEL.

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