Quickly upgrade ssh/openssh in CentOS Linux to latest 5.5 version
In a CentOS 5.5 host, we were requested to upgrade openssh to its latest version. Here are steps I took to quickly do the upgrade. You may like to compile it from source or can take my way of installing it from some repository.
Checking existing verison shows 4.3p2:
$ ssh -v OpenSSH_4.3p2, OpenSSL 0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 01 Jul 2008
simply tried upgrading by running yum using default repositories but it didn’t find any latest version. To grab the latest one, I have installed the CentALT repository, which usually have latest packages. I’ve documented the steps to install it in earlier post here. After having installed CentALT, I tried again but found some dependency issue: