[Bug 286337] Re: Please backport OpenSSH 5.1 to Hardy

[Matty Dee]

For those who are interested, its not that hard to compile your own
version. I had to remove all of openssh (server+client) using synaptic,
and then compiled and packaged using checkinstall.

For some reason, the init script no longer worked so I did a removal all (or whatever its called: remove everything including configuration) and wrote my own simple startup command 
/usr/sbin/sshd -f /etc/ssh/sshd_config
which is started via rc.local. I noticed this because the old starup (/etc/init.d/ssh start) did not apply the configuration I specified in sshd_config, so be careful! I don't know enough about ubuntu to tell you what's going on there. 

Of course with this method you will need to personally make sure you
stay up to date with any security updates in openssh.

No sense in waiting for this though. Compiling your own packages isn't
so hard after all...

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Please backport OpenSSH 5.1 to Hardy
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/286337
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