[GUACAMOLE-945] Migrate SSH support (back) to libssh

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Won't Do
• Component/s: SSH
• Assignee: Mike Jumper
• Reporter: Joonas Tuomisto
• Created: 04/Feb/20 10:36
• Updated: 08/Nov/21 23:31
• Resolved: 08/Nov/21 23:31

Description

It appears Red Hat / CentOS stopped shipping libssh2 in version 8 which makes building Guacamole a hassle on those platforms - of course, this has nothing to do with Guacamole as such, but would it make sense to consider other libraries?

I didn't look into this in depth so not sure if there's major benefits feature-wise and how much work this would entail...

libssh seems to have undergone an external security audit recently so security could be one consideration.

re: CentOS, this is discussed here: https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=16492

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: GUACAMOLE-1052 Libssh2 has less key exchange methods when compare to libssh.
• is superceded by: GUACAMOLE-746 Add support for ED25519 SSH keys
• is superceded by: GUACAMOLE-745 Add support for OpenSSH private key format
• links to: 0016492: No libssh2-devel package - CentOS Bug Tracker
• links to: [GUAC-432] SSH agent forwarding support - Glyptodon, Inc. JIRA