Call for testing: OpenSSH-5.6

[Damien Miller]

On Sun, 15 Aug 2010, Darren Tucker wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 09:11:30PM +0200, Tom Christensen wrote:
> > Damien Miller wrote:
> > >Hi,
> > >
> > >OpenSSH 5.6 is almost ready for release, so we would appreciate testing
> > >on as many platforms and systems as possible. This is a moderately large
> > >release, with a number of new features and bug fixes.
> > >
> > >Snapshot releases for portable OpenSSH are available from
> > >http://www.mindrot.org/openssh_snap/
> > >
> > >Running the regression tests supplied with Portable OpenSSH does not
> > >require installation and is a simply:
> > >
> > >$ ./configure && make tests
> > >
> > I tried building openssh-SNAP-20100815 on IRIX 5.3 but it fails
> > because this platform lacks strptime:
> 
> It's only used when generating time-based certificates, so the quick and
> dirty hack is to just disable that on platforms that don't have
> strptime.  (I looked at pulling in support from openbsd but it's a
> tangled web of locale stuff).
> 
> Please try this patch (you will need to run "autoreconf" to rebuild
> configure).

I think this is a reasonable thingto do for release. Note that you
will still be able to use time-based certificates if you want to use
them, but you will need to specify the start and end times using the
relative time format.

-d