Re: SSH Tunneling implementation

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
To: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
Cc: Akshay Joshi <akshay(dot)joshi(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, pgadmin-hackers <pgadmin-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: SSH Tunneling implementation
Date: 2012-07-09 10:23:47
Message-ID: CABUevEz5rFFT_UoGJZud0wh-L+hdhXRxpWrHAQZyXD8skDVFOA@mail.gmail.com
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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.

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Magnus Hagander
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