Upgrade SSH

LeadDogGraphics

• March 24, 2015 23:04

The current version of SSH is vastly out of date. It's amazing that no one has complained on here before about updating it. Is there any problem with removing the current install of openssh and installing an updated one such as version 6.8? The current version that cPanel installs is OpenSSH_5.3p1.

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  cPanelMichael

  • March 25, 2015 16:02

  Hello, cPanel does not install OpenSSH. It's an OS package that's managed by YUM. You can simply run "yum update" to ensure it's updated. Also, note that patches might be backported:
  rpm -q --changelog openssh|grep CVE
  CentOS or RHEL won't always use the latest version provided by OpenSSH. Thank you.

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  LeadDogGraphics

  • March 26, 2015 01:59

  Thank you for the reply, but I am not only interested in the security patches, but I am interested in the newer security and encryption features of the newer versions.

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  LeadDogGraphics

  • March 26, 2015 04:20

  Although I do see that CentOS 7 ships with openSSH 6.3,which is a major upgrade from 5.3. I hope they decide to upgrade further, in the past few releases there have been nice upgrades to the crypto capabilities with SSH that people need to start using. More info can be found at the following two links:

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