You could alternately install alternate SSH clients (non-OpenSSH) for this purpose. $ rpm -qi putty | tail -1 Putty is a SSH, Telnet & Rlogin client - this

You could alternately install alternate SSH clients (non-OpenSSH) for this purpose. $ rpm -qi putty | tail -1 Putty is a SSH, Telnet & Rlogin client - this time for Linux. $ rpm -qi dropbear | tail -2 Dropbear is a relatively small SSH server and client. It's particularly useful for "embedded"-type Linux (or other Unix) systems, such as wireless routers. The focus for SSH is safety. These others shift more to broad compatibility; I do wish they would throw warnings for weak ciphers.