ssh protocols

[Bob Hilliard <hilliard@debian.org>]

     From the CONFIGURATION FILES section of the ssh (OpenSSH) manpage:

     Protocol
             Specifies the protocol versions ssh should support in order of
             preference.  The possible values are ``1'' and ``2''.  Multiple
             versions must be comma-separated.  The default is ``2,1''.  This
             means that ssh tries version 2 and falls back to version 1 if
             version 2 is not available.

     Apparently the various Debian machines are all running a version
of ssh that recognizes only Protocol 1.  The cited quotation from the
manpage suggests that the default value should allow a machine running
OpenSSH to ssh into a Debian machine, but, as we all know, it is
necessary to specify Protocol 1 (ssh -1).  Setting "Protocol 1,2" in
~.ssh/config permits accessing either a Debian machine or a machine
running OpenSSH.

     It appears that there is a bug either in ssh or in its
documentation.  Which is it?

Bob
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