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Re: SSH buglist cleanup.



On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 05:33:11PM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote:
> > 	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.

	Done.
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