Bug#151877: acknowledged by developer (Re: ssh: bad advice from debconf)

[Erno Kuusela <erno@iki.fi>]

hello,

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Colin Watson wrote:
| > another thing: enabling both protocols at once of course increases the
| > "area" of the potentially vulnerable protocol interface. if the user
| > requires the use of v1 for compatibility, there should be an option
| > to enable v1 only.
| 
| There is; it's just not presented by debconf. Not all of OpenSSH's
| configuration options are - nor should be - presented by debconf.

i guess i was trying to say that the two sensible options presented
by debconf would be "allow protocol 2 only" and "allow protocol 1 only".
all clients i know of can speak v1 too.

  -- erno