openssh 2.9: socks5 support? and support for RSA SECURID (one-t ime password)?

[Markus Friedl]

On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 04:26:57PM -0400, Ault, James R (CRD) wrote:
> I was reading the changelog from version 2.9 that was recently released, and I coudln't help noticing
> this item:
> 
> from openssh changelog:
> 
> - markus at cvs.openbsd.org 2001/04/17 12:55:04
>      [channels.c ssh.c]
>      undo socks5 and https support since they are not really used and
>      only bloat ssh. 
> 
> 
> I would like to say that I am one person that does care about ssh with socks5 support, and I would
> like to see it stay in openssh. 

openssh did never include support for client side socks. you
can use ProxyCommand for this:

        ProxyCommand exec /usr/local/bin/socksify /usr/bin/nc %h %p

this commit message was about removing a simple SOCKS5
SERVER (yes, server) form openssh. openssh does still
include a SOCK4 server.

> I know there are people here who use ssh with socks5 support, and I want to convince them to use
> openssh instead of whatever v1 version they are using now, but it will be difficult for me to do that
> if socks5 support disappears.

socks5 did not disappear. there was not explicit socks5 support.

> Or else I will just have to stay at openssh2.5.2p2 for a long time. 

why?

> I also wanted to ask about the possibility of having RSA SECURID as a one-time password support

in the future. however, openssh 2.9p1's contrib dir contains
some code.