Re: ssh protocols

[Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>]

On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 04:53:28PM -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote:
>      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.

That's not true.  I log in to Debian machines using Protocol 2 every
day - at the least voltaire and auric both.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer