Install openSSH 7.6 on Ubuntu 14.04

installopenssh76.sh

#!/bin/bash

echo "Installing deps..."
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev zlib1g-dev libpam0g-dev xz-utils
sudo apt-get remove openssh-server

echo "Downloading and extracting sources..."
wget http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/OpenSSH/portable/openssh-7.6p1.tar.gz
wget http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/downloads/openssh/openssh-7.6p1-openssl-1.1.0-1.patch
tar -xf openssh-7.6p1.tar.gz
cd openssh-7.6p1

echo "Applying patch and running configure and make..."
patch -Np1 -i ../openssh-7.6p1-openssl-1.1.0-1.patch &&

./configure --prefix=/usr                     \
            --sysconfdir=/etc/ssh             \
            --with-md5-passwords              \
            --with-privsep-path=/var/lib/sshd              \
            --with-pam &&
make

echo "Installing..."
make install &&
install -v -m755    contrib/ssh-copy-id /usr/bin     &&

install -v -m644    contrib/ssh-copy-id.1 \
                    /usr/share/man/man1              &&
install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/openssh-7.6p1     &&
install -v -m644    INSTALL LICENCE OVERVIEW README* \
                    /usr/share/doc/openssh-7.6p1

echo "Downloading and symlinking init script..."
cd ../
wget http://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/blfs-bootscripts/blfs-bootscripts-20180105.tar.xz
tar -xf blfs-bootscripts-20180105.tar.xz
cd blfs-bootscripts-20180105

make install-sshd
ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd /etc/init.d/sshd

echo "Restarting sshd service..."
sudo service sshd restart

echo "DONE!"

@phumpal updated, thanks!