[olug] SSH config

[Brian Roberson]

that's the first thing I checked - the Protocol statement is commented out
entirely, I am going to download the srpm to find out how suse compiled
it....


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daniel Linder" <dan at linder.org>
To: "Omaha Linux User Group" <olug at olug.org>
Cc: <olug at olug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 9:59 AM
Subject: Re: [olug] SSH config


>
> roberson at olug.org 03/30/04 20:38 PM wrote (I think?):
> > Oddly enough olug.org was upgraded to Suse 9 and I am unable to login
the
> > box via sshv1 - no problems with v2
>
> Check to see if the /etc/ssh/sshd_config has the following lines (near the
> top on my RH box):
> #Protocol 2,1
> Protocol 2
>
> SSH version 2 is thought to be more secure, SSH version 1 was the only
> game in town for a long time, but SSH v2 is available on nearly everything
> now-a-days (Cisco and some other hardware manufactures being an
> exception).
>
> This could explain the problem of v1 not working but v2 being Ok.
>
> There is/was a known exploit against older v1 SSH daemons so as a rule I
> only run v2 where possible.
>
> Dan
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