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Martial
Martial

Reputation: 1562

Use git with second compiled ssh

My machine is on CentOS 5 and I can't upgrade it.

# ssh -V
OpenSSH_4.3p2, OpenSSL 0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 01 Jul 2008
# which ssh
/usr/bin/ssh

OpenSSH/OpenSSL are too old to connect to ssh://[email protected]:443 (yes there is a proxy)

So I compiled a recent version of ssh and ssl in /tmp/ssh

# /tmp/ssh/bin/ssh -V
OpenSSH_6.9p1, OpenSSL 1.0.2j  26 Sep 2016

It works like charme

# /tmp/ssh/bin/ssh -v [email protected] -p 443
...
debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug1: Offering RSA public key: /root/.ssh/id_rsa
debug1: Server accepts key: pkalg ssh-rsa blen 277
debug1: Authentication succeeded (publickey).
Authenticated to altssh.bitbucket.org (via proxy).
debug1: channel 0: new [client-session]
debug1: Entering interactive session.
PTY allocation request failed on channel 0
logged in as *********.

You can use git or hg to connect to Bitbucket. Shell access is disabled.
debug1: client_input_channel_req: channel 0 rtype exit-status reply 0
debug1: channel 0: free: client-session, nchannels 1
Connection to altssh.bitbucket.org closed.
Transferred: sent 3552, received 1744 bytes, in 0.4 seconds
Bytes per second: sent 9724.6, received 4774.7
debug1: Exit status 0

Now, how can I tell git to use /tmp/ssh/bin/ssh instead of /usr/bin/ssh ?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 57

Answers (1)

janos
janos

Reputation: 124646

You can either prepend to PATH the base directory of the alternative ssh binary, or set the GIT_SSH environment variable to the path of the alternative ssh. For example:

export GIT_SSH=/to/ssh/bin/ssh

Upvotes: 2

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