I've managed to compile/install both OpenSSL and OpenSSH on my
Sparc IPX running NetBSD 1.4.1, although it may have been a futile
effort as some of the operations on the IPX take an eternity.
Part of my goal is to enable SSL support for sendmail, but if
every connection to sendmail via SSL is going to be as slow as
authenticating an ssh connection to the machine, I'm not sure it
is worth the effort. Any words of wisdom on this?

--tnx
--tom

At 12:54 PM 8/30/2006 -0400, you wrote:

> > I'm running NetBSD 1.4.1 on my Sparc IPX and it has been incredibly
> > stable.  I am now finding that I need to support some of the secure
> > transfer/connection methods such as sftp[d] and perhaps ssh[d].  Will
> > these daemons and apps run on my older kernel/system or do I need to
> > go through a painful upgrade process?
>
>As someone who is still running NetBSD almost that old (I'm at 1.4T,
>frozen in 2000-02)....
>
>The stock NetBSD ones, I don't know - my guess would be that you'd have
>a moderately uncomfortable porting effort in your hands.
>
>But I wouldn't expect it to be that much work to get one of the free
>ssh implementations to work on your machine.  I'm somewhat biased in
>this regard (I have an ssh implementation I wrote), but there are at
>least two that I am at arm's-length from (openssh and ssh.com).
>
>I'd suggest my own, but you specifically mention sftp, and that's one
>piece I don't yet have implemented - I've been waiting for the sftp
>drafts to settle down, and even now they look more like a remote
>filesystem access protocol than a file transfer protocol.  I suspect
>all implementations will be subsets, leading to interoperability
>problems, but the sense of the WG seems to be that this is what it
>shall be.
>
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