On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 03:30:06PM +0100, Aidan Mcgrath L (AT/LMI) wrote:
we recently were requested to upgrade our Openssh to the latest version
which was SMCossh421 This caused a problem with some Applications in
the system. I recently received a mail to this effect i.e...
"we have concluded that ... is not compatible with this version of
Open SSH. The reason being, SFTP client of ... uses an option -b of sftp
command for batch file processing. This option has been removed in openssh
4.1. In the absence of this option, SFTP client would not be able to
work properly in the system. We therefore suggests that openssh 3.6.1
p1 should additionally be included in the System as ... is dependent on
it. I suppose the package names of 3.6.1 and 4.1 are different so they
can co exist in the system. "
1) Is this correct?
No (at least, not for the main distribution. It's possible that the
creator of the binary package changed something, you would have to
ask them.) sftp's -b option is present in the source for 4.1p1 and 4.2p1.
2) Is it also true that 4.2p1 version has not got this (batch handling)
option, and is therefore not backward compatible to 3.6.1, and
No.
if so:
3) Can the two versions, 3.6.1 and 4.2p1, coexist on the same system.
Yes, as long as they're compiled to use different paths for their binaries
(again, ask the creator of your packages, or build them yourself giving
different "--prefix" paths to configure).
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