[Gt-eos] gct and gsissh

[Paul Millar]

Hi Mischa,

On 28/11/17 17:48, Mischa Salle wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 05:26:46PM +0100, Paul Millar wrote:
>> Yes, I meant OpenSSH as "upstream".
>> 
>>> In the latter case, I wouldn't bother to get it pushed 
>>> through...
>> 
>> I guess these features / improvements are not that important,
>> then.
> 
> I don't think one can deduce that... My point is that upstream is 
> extremely conservative (not saying here whether that is good or not, 
> just stating as fact).

Sorry, I misunderstood your point here.

> For the same reason, the really very useful gssapi-fixing patch has
> never made it upstream, although it's adapted by both Debian and
> RedHat (pushed by the moonshot people who also need it), and would
> probably make the actual gsi-openssh a lot easier to implement: I
> think one could do it with a stock openssh plus an addon library.

This sounds like a fork of OpenSSH in all but name.

Cheers,

Paul.