From owner-ssh@clinet.fi Wed Mar 12 04:07:10 1997 Received: from hauki.clinet.fi (root@hauki.clinet.fi [194.100.0.1]) by hutcs.cs.hut.fi (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA12164; Wed, 12 Mar 1997 04:07:09 +0200 (EET) Received: (daemon@localhost) by hauki.clinet.fi (8.8.5/8.6.4) id DAA22584 for ssh-outgoing; Wed, 12 Mar 1997 03:57:24 +0200 (EET) Received: from mickey.ee.pdx.edu (mickey.ee.pdx.edu [204.203.64.18]) by hauki.clinet.fi (8.8.5/8.6.4) with ESMTP id DAA22575 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 1997 03:57:16 +0200 (EET) Received: from crow.cat.pdx.edu (crow.cat.pdx.edu [204.203.67.140]) by mickey.ee.pdx.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA10973 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 17:57:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by crow.cat.pdx.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA08360 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 17:57:27 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199703120157.RAA08360@crow.cat.pdx.edu> To: ssh@clinet.fi Subject: 1.2.13 -> 1.2.17 issues... Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 17:57:26 -0800 From: Eric Berggren (FurryLogic) Sender: owner-ssh@clinet.fi Precedence: bulk Being quite successful in popularizing the use of SSH at our site, we've put off upgrading in fear of the compatibility issues we're facing now. Trying to simultaneously upgrade all servers, agents, and clients to the same version, we'd might as well renumber our hosts. Is there any chance in mixing old/new versions of clients (ssh) and agents (ssh-agent) ? The old agents stored sockets in /tmp, which is an error to the new clients (permission issues). Disabling this condition as being treated as a fatal error, the new client merely hangs with an old agent (and likewise for old clients with a new agent). Is there an intermediate version between 1.2.14-1.2.16 that could speak both protocols (at the probable expense of not being able to forward) or some other code tweak ? The only other way seen as to use an exotic wrapper program (scripts can't handle metachars) to try to ascertain what version of the agent it being used); of course, with functionality being tied to the command names, this also adds complexity of separating versions while ensuring the preservation of basenames) Requesting everyone to log out to upgrade would push this off for months... [i'm not on the list; apologies if covered before; the archive is rather small] thanks, -eric ============================================================================= - Portland State University - Eric Berggren Janaka Jayawardena Network Manager & SysEng, SEAS Director of Computer Services, CS/EE eric@cat.pdx.edu janaka@cat.pdx.edu Administrative Contact: cat@cat.pdx.edu