Call for testing: openssh-9.1

[Damien Miller]

On Fri, 30 Sep 2022, Ed Maste wrote:

> 20:10, Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > OpenSSH 9.1p1 is almost ready for release, so we would appreciate testing
> > on as many platforms and systems as possible. This is a bugfix release.
> 
> On my FreeBSD 13/14ish laptop something's wrong with ./configure -
> HAVE_FIDO_DEV_IS_WINHELLO is not getting set in config.h and then
> building fails with:

Are you rerunning autoconf? If so, what version are you using?
(we use 2.71)

> I will look into that, but in any case with a straightforward
> workaround for that the tests do run. They end up stalling, waiting on
> input:
> ...
> run test conch-ciphers.sh ...
> conch ciphers: cipher aes256-ctr
> emaste at 127.0.0.1's password:
> 
> I removed conch-ciphers for now, and the tests finish with:
> all tests passed

I think these are somewhat dependent on the conch version and also
(sometimes) filesystem permissions.

> There are also a few FreeBSD changes / issues that are still waiting:
> https://marc.info/?l=openssh-unix-dev&m=163034560831808&w=2
> https://marc.info/?l=openssh-unix-dev&m=165236928625750&w=2
> https://marc.info/?l=openssh-unix-dev&m=165289778115816&w=2

I'll take a look, but these are unlikely to make release sorry.

-d