Thus spake Steven Ames <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Making SSH 2 the default is one thing. Removing SSH 1 as a > > fallback altogether is going to break compatibility with other > > systems like you'd never believe. For example, I regularly need > > to SSH into Solaris boxen running SSH 1. These machines aren't > > secure anyway, and since there's nothing I can do about it, I > > don't want any surprises when I upgrade. > > I think he was suggesting removing it from the sshd server, not > the client. You can always specify the protocol on the command > line with the client even if it didn't fall back... and again he's > suggesting it for the default configuration, you can always change > the configuration. I'm not necessarily for this change I just want > to be sure what change is being suggested :)
In either case, you break compatibility. Say I wanted to SSH from those Solaris boxen to my home machine, for example. (I don't, but that's not the point.) If my SSH server didn't have the SSH 1 fallback, there's nothing I could do from the command line to allow me to log in. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
