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Nick Couchman commented on GUACAMOLE-945: ----------------------------------------- Interesting, and a shame. The power of libssh2 is that it's very simple and straight-forward to use - it does a few things very well, and that's pretty much all we need. We could look at adding support for or migrating to the OpenSSH library - I'm guessing that's the most available and popular one - it's just going to take some work to make the switch, and I don't know if there are any licensing issues, although that tends to be less of an issue with guacd since we don't distribute binary code. Thanks for submitting this - definitely good to know for our roadmap. > Migrating away from libssh2 dependency? > --------------------------------------- > > Key: GUACAMOLE-945 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GUACAMOLE-945 > Project: Guacamole > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: guacd > Reporter: Joonas Tuomisto > Priority: Minor > > 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 -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.4#803005)