Re: Help with ssh, please

[Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com>]

Adam John Henry <hank@linuxfreemail.com> writes:

> > BURLET Frederic <fburlet@info.fundp.ac.be> writes:
> > Or, if it's a newer version off ssh, it uses protocol 2 by
> > default.
> > Check the documentation in /usr/share/doc/ssh.
> 
> What is the reasoning behind this:
> 
>   "ssh-keygen defaults to generating a RSA1 key for use by SSH pro­
>   tocol version 1." [ssh-keygen(1)]
> 
> So the server will attempt to use newer keys per default, but the package
> is installed so it generates old keys?

That would be bug #114894 - ssh: Version 2 should also be default for
ssh-keygen

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Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com>