Re: [ros-dev] GSOC 2016 - SSH Service Project

[Zachary Gorden]

Simply getting the MS port of openssh working on ReactOS would not be
sufficient, for a variety of reasons. The biggest is that such a
project does not constitute a significant amount of work to warrant
the project using one of its gsoc slots for it. Next, MS' openssh port
is not a pure C/C++ build, it apparently still needs to make use of
perl in the build process. That is not acceptable from the team's
perspective, any code that goes into our tree, even as an import,
needs to be buildable with nothing more than a c/c++ compiler, and
cmake files for generation of ninja/make/msbuild files. We will not
accept another buildchain dependency, especially not something as
heavy as perl.

To be frank, the project considers this particular project as fairly
low in priority. If you want to apply for one of our gsoc slots with
this project, you will need to come up with a very, very good proposal
to convince us it warrants a slot.

On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 5:26 AM, Anchit Jain <mailinglist(a)anchitja.in> wrote:
>  
>
>  02.03.2016, 23:23, "Oliver Schneider" <Borbarad(a)gmxpro.net>et>:
> >    Perhaps have a look at
> > <https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH>
> >   which is Microsoft's effort at porting OpenSSH so that it can work with
> >   PowerShell. (They are reusing what NoMachine had done before them.)
> >
> >   AFAIK they culled most of the OpenSSL functions in order to replace it
> >   with Windows crypto, but since the argument of that being proprietary
> >   would not hold in ReactOS, you could possibly use the ReactOS crypto
> >   straight.
> >
> >   Otherwise, from what I know, you can re-enable the use of OpenSSL in it.
> >
> >   // Oliver
> >
> >   On 2016-03-02 17:18, Ged Murphy wrote:
> > >     Why do we want an SSH server in the source?
> > >
> > >    If someone wants to run an SSH server, they can download and install one
> > >    as they would do on Windows.
> > >
> > >    *From:*Ros-dev [mailto:[e-mail]] *On Behalf Of
> > >    *Zachary Gorden
> > >    *Sent:* 02 March 2016 16:58
> > >    *To:* ReactOS Development List &lt;ros-dev(a)reactos.org&gt;
> > >    *Subject:* Re: [ros-dev] GSOC 2016 - SSH Service Project
> > >
> > >    Any SSH server developed for ReactOS would need to be written in C/C++
> > >    and be compilable by both GCC and VC++. So while the expectation is that
> > >    a developer would likely need to pull a SSH library from an existing
> > >    source such as OpenSSH, the server itself will almost certainly need to
> > >    be written from scratch if only because there does not exist as far as I
> > >    am aware of a fully open source SSH server that runs natively on Windows
> > >    without hauling around the likes of cygwin. Apache Mina is written in
> > >    Java and therefore would be inappropriate as a starting base for the SSH
> > >    server project.
> > >
> > >    On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 5:30 AM, Anchit Jain &lt;mailinglist(a)anchitja.in
> > >    <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
> > >
> > >        Hello everyone,
> > >
> > >        I am Anchit Jain, Computer Science undergraduate from BITS PILANI,
> > >        India.
> > >        I am interested in pursuing SSH Service project.
> > >
> > >        I have some experience in Socket Programming and Network Protocol
> > >        development in C. Some of my work could be seen
> > >        at https://github.com/anchitjain1234
> > >       
> > > <https://link.nylas.com/link/ezhvubksgc7dhi29sglp2mpvq/7af2e7b30ed04821b97b5daf7689e7a5/0?redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fanchitjain1234>.
> > >
> > >        In past, I have implemented some basic network services like TFTP
> > >        protocol and some minor part of FTP client.
> > >
> > >        Regarding the project :- Would this project require a new SSH Server
> > >        to be written from scratch or to be build upon some existing
> > >        codebase like Apache Mina etc.?
> > >
> > >        I would request potential mentors to guide me for the same.
> > >
> > >        Thanks,
> > >
> > >        Anchit Jain
> > >
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>  Thank you so much for explaining things related to the project.
>
>  I looked into Win32-OpenSSH and in design details
> (https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/wiki/About%20Win32%20OpenSSH%20…)
> they have explained many of the things that they replaced from OpenBSD systems and how
> they have worked around that.
>
>  Regarding this, yesterday I discussed on IRC where I came to know that React OS is
> compatible with Windows Server 2003 so fork of Win32-OpenSSH theoretically might work
> directly on React OS or might need some minor changes where Win 7+ API would have been
> used.
>
>  So this project mainly reduces to make the fork of Win32-OpenSSH compatible with React
> OS.
>
>  Whether taking this port of SSH to windows can be seen as ok for the GSOC, or not?
>  If not, what other things could be added to make it OK for GSOC?
>
>  Thanks,
>  Anchit Jain
>
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