Greetings, Sudhanshu Bhutani! >> Greetings, Sudhanshu Bhutani! >> >> > On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 6:14 PM Sudhanshu Bhutani wrote: >> >> >> Thank you Brian and Mike. We will see if cygwin time machine owners can >> >> help us. >> >> http://www.crouchingtigerhiddenfruitbat.org/Cygwin/timemachine.html >> >> >> >> I will try contacting - doc...@fruitbat.org - PETER CASTRO for any >> help. >> >> >> >> > One more approach - i was thinking was - can we package/include the >> > complete cygwin already [which already has older openssh version in bin >> > folder] installed folder to our tool exe without any modification? >> > Does it involve any violations for Cygwin GPLv3? Do we need to include >> > source code as well? Or can re-distributing an already created cygwin >> > folder can be done with freedom without any issues? >> >> You can provide a private mirror of your own as suggested, which would be a >> more future-proof way, but really you should investigate the cause of the >> failing SSH behavior and fix THAT. >> I suspect the fix would be way easier than setting up and maintaining a >> whole >> mirror. >> >> > Thanks for your reply, we are going to retire our platform that uses ssh > client of old times in next 4 months, which is not supporting updated > ciphers/updated in openssh 8.2 versions. As cygwin is only supporting > updated binaries from openssh and not listing older versions, hence the > issue is appearing on the platform where old ssh client is deployed. > Unfortunately, the platform lives with customer and we dont have any way to > update obsolete platform. Hence, i was thinking for work around on this > platform for next 4-6 months, to re-distribute already installed cygwin > folder to customer from which our tool can use older ssh client.
I have an urge to call the b-word. > Does it involve gplv3 violations or any legal challenge? Appreciate your > response. Newer OpenSSH do support old ciphers, but they needs to be explicitly enabled in config. See https://www.openssh.com/legacy.html -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Thursday, November 12, 2020 20:09:31 Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
