FWIW, last I checked MacPorts SSH doesn’t compile on ppc anymore. Sent from my iPhone
> On Jun 11, 2022, at 8:53 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > > Hello! > >> On 6/11/22 17:47, Stan Johnson wrote: >> Well, that's a good thing, some security experts might say, since those >> older versions of SSH have been found to have vulnerabilites and should >> no longer be used. Which would be a great argument if it were always >> possible to run the latest operating system on all platforms. The >> problem is that some of those SSH clients live in operating systems that >> can't be upgraded, such as Mac OS 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) or Mac OS >> 10.13.6 (High Sierra) on some hardware. > > Are you sure you can't just install a more recent version of OpenSSH on > these machines? At least Macports has OpenSSH 9.0 which should still work > fine on older version of OSX [1]. > >> I should probably send this request to the SSH upstream developers, but >> it's likely that none of them would be interested in bringing back older >> features that are deemed to be less secure, unless a major distribution >> (such as Debian) supports the effort. > > Well, at least the Debian PowerPC mailing list is probably the wrong list > to ask but rather debian-devel. > >> I could also install my own copy of an older version of SSH, but sooner >> or later older versions will no longer compile on modern GNU/Linux >> distributions. Or I could just keep using telnet and ftp over already-secure >> internal networks. > > Or just install a newer client version on the older operating systems. > ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > > Adrian > >> [1] https://ports.macports.org/port/openssh/ > > -- > .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > : :' : Debian Developer > `. `' Physicist > `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 >