Re: SSH buglist cleanup.
On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Tommi Virtanen wrote:
> 58532:
> The ssh client uses low ports by default for a rarely-used
> authentication mechanism. If you don't like this, either
> chmod u-s /usr/bin/ssh (that's what I do), or use the
> UsePrivilegedPort config setting. And no, this does not
> violate any RFCs any more than rsh does. I'm opening a
> wishlist bug report to have ssh be non-suid by default.
Please open a wishlist bug concerning the same thing against ssh-nonfree (if
there isn't one filled yet). We should have both ssh packages working the
same way, if at all possible IMHO.
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Henrique Holschuh
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