the latest version of openSSH for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.7 according to yum is openssh-4.3p2-82

but that doesn’t stop us:

cd /usr/local/src
wget http://mirror.esc7.net/pub/OpenBSD/OpenSSH/portable/openssh-6.1p1.tar.gz
tar -xvzf openssh-6.1p1.tar.gz
cp ./openssh-6.1p1/contrib/redhat/openssh.spec /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/
cp openssh-6.1p1.tar.gz /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/
cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
perl -i.bak -pe 's/^(%define no_(gnome|x11)_askpass)\s+0$/$1 1/' openssh.spec
rpmbuild -bb openssh.spec
cd /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386
rpm -e openssh-askpass-4.3p2-82.el5.i386
rpm -Uvh openssh-*.rpm
 
[root@server ~]# ssh -v
OpenSSH_6.1p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 01 Jul 2008