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

[mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org]

On Sat, 12 May 2001, Markus Friedl wrote:

> 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
>

Should we add in a 'FAQ' question for this?  It's been brought up a enough
now.

[..]
> > 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.
>

We do? I don't remember commiting such a patch, nor do I see it.  There
was talk about it, but no one submitted a patch.

- Ben