[X2Go-Dev] libssh in Windows X2Go Client

[Mike DePaulo]

On Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 12:24 PM Oleksandr Shneyder
<o.shneyder at phoca-gmbh.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> who knows which version of libssh we are using with current Windows
> client? Last week I was on site of one of my customers and investigated
> the issue when X2Go Client on Windows 10 was not able to open SSH
> channel with libssh error "socket error: No error". Apparently customer
> has this problem sometimes, not very often. But in case, when customer
> opened a session over SSH proxy, he was able to reproduce the issue in
> every 3rd-4th connection. I tried to build several versions of libssh
> for testing. With 0.7.7 I was still able to reproduce such behavior.
> After that I built the most recent version (0.9.2). We're still testing
> it, but looks like we don't have this issue any more. So, I was thinking
> maybe we should update libssh library in our Windows client.


Still 0.7.4:
https://code.x2go.org/gitweb?p=x2goclient.git;a=blob;f=copy-deps-win32.bat
https://code.x2go.org/gitweb?p=x2goclient-contrib.git;a=tree;f=libssh

We still have to patch each version to use pageant (see the folder above).
It has always been feasible to forward-port the patch to new minor
releases (and micro releases.)
However, upstream wants a more generic change in order to merge it:
https://bugs.libssh.org/T27

-Mike