Upgrading openssh to 6.5 on centOS 5 machine

[Iain Morgan]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 11:11:53 -0700, Sachin Gupta wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
> 
> I am a newbie.
> I am supposed to upgrade openssh on a centOS machine.
> Following are the current versions of openssh and centOS.
> 
> /tmp# /usr/sbin/sshd -V
> OpenSSH_4.3p2, OpenSSL 0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 01 Jul 2008
> 
> /tmp# rpm -q centos-release
> centos-release-5-2.el5.centos
> 
> I have already tried the following link.
> http://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=openssh
> 
> I am unable to find out the right RPM for centOS 5.0.
> Can you please point me to the right RPM ?
> 
> Thanks
> Sachin

You can build your own RPMs based on the .spec file included in the
source distribution of OpenSSH. Grab a copy of the current source
tarball and look at README.platform and contrib/redhat/openssh.spec.

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Iain Morgan