On 7/13/22 00:56, Damien Miller wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jul 2022, Darren Tucker wrote: > >> Hi. >> >> This applies on top of my previous patch cleaning up libcrypt and stops >> linking scp, sftp and sftp-server against libcrypto. Why do this? >> Well for one reason these components sometimes get used independently >> of ssh/sshd (eg in OpenWRT where they can be used with Dropbear) and >> it'd be nice if I could have sftp on space constrained devices without >> the currently-required but not strictly necessary additional libraries. >> >> The same thing can be done with zlib but that's the next patch. > > IIRC we linked libcrypto because some linkers were not smart enough to > elide references to libcrypto coming from unused functions in libssh > > It's possible that I'm wrong/outdated though That reminds me: is there any chance that OpenSSH’s SSH client code could be made into a library that other code could use as well? Having to spawn a child process is a bit annoying, and I would like to be able to use all of ssh(1)’s features. -- Sincerely, Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers)
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