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Re: Stop SSHD from reporting distro and version?!



On Tuesday 17 February 2004 10:10, Colin Watson wrote:

> I'm firmly of the opinion that software should advertise its version
> number to aid debugging in all kinds of circumstances. If there's a
> security flaw, *that's* what you need to fix, not try to hide behide
> obscurity.

(OT, but this reminded me of one of my favourite axes to grind.)

Except web-browsers.  I'm firmly of the opinion that the WWW would be a
better "place" if the user-agent string had never been invented.



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