Re: Problem with ssh
Lo, on Saturday, June 29, Sam Varghese did write:
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> On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 05:33:17PM -0500, Richard Cobbe wrote:
> > Not correct. In woody, both packages support both versions. OpenSSH
> > defaults to protocol v1; for v2, supply the `-2' switch to ssh or add
> > the appropriate line to ~/.ssh/config.
>
> Right, I discovered that I was using a version of ssh-non free as client
> rather than OpenSSH.
>
> But does OpenSSH default to version 1 or version 2? I find that I can
> log in to the two servers which I need to - one uses version 1 and the
> other version 2 - and I don't need to supply the -2 switch.
I'm not entirely sure how OpenSSH decides which protocol version to
use. It's entirely possible that there's a hand-shaking phase in the
connection process, during which the client and the server figure out
which versions of the protocol they support, and in what order.
So, it would seem that my earlier statement about it defaulting to
version 1 may not be correct. Mea culpa. (Most of the machines that I
deal with are running potato, which until recently was restricted to
protocol v1. The one woody machine I run only talks to a potato
machine, so the fact that it supports protocol v2 was, until I installed
the security fixes, irrelevant.)
Richard
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