Re: SSH Tunneling implementation

From: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
To: Ashesh Vashi <ashesh(dot)vashi(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Akshay Joshi <akshay(dot)joshi(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, pgadmin-hackers <pgadmin-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: SSH Tunneling implementation
Date: 2012-07-10 11:46:41
Message-ID: CA+OCxoybD8LfLNLNgpvRLsKWf++geaapO4DbJm-ze5_5dS2DjQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Ashesh Vashi <
ashesh(dot)vashi(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:

>
>> Why are we talking about using the external application here?
>

Because I suggested giving it some thought in case it turns out we have no
other option.

> The only problem with the current implementation - is that it does use new
> APIs for tunneling.
> We can change the implementation based on the current supplied libssh2 on
> most linux flavours.
> i.e. libssh2 - 1.2.7 or later
>
> I have asked Akshay to check - if we can modify the current implementation
> to use the older version of libssh2. (feasibility)
>

I've already asked him to investigate whether there is another API that may
be used that he may have missed. Only supporting old versions of libssh2 is
unacceptable though - we need to support current versions, and ideally
older ones as well for compatibility with Ubuntu/Debian/RHEL etc.

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