Re: SSH Tunneling implementation

Can we identify which version of libssh is required, and have a
configure check for it? AFAICT they are all on 1.2 until the *next*
release - so is it really something that breaks on just a minor
version? If so, we really need a configure check for it.

I think it's ok to say that we can't build with that feature on 10.04
(assuming we can find a configure test for it). less sure about
something that's less than a year old such as 11.10.

//Magnus

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Akshay Joshi
<akshay(dot)joshi(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have tested libssh2 authentication by setting publickey parameter to NULL
> with prebuilt binaries which is compiled with other SSL library. Logic
> didn't work. We will have to provide publickey file as parameter if libssh2
> compiled with other SSL library.
>
> I have tried it on my Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS machine. But the problem is when I
> have installed the prebuilt binaries, it installs 1.2.2 old version and the
> code is not compiled. Then I have copied the prebuilt binaries and required
> headers from Ubuntu 12 and found we will have to set the public key file.
>
> Thoughts? Comments?
>
> On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 7:12 PM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
>>
>> 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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