ssh protocol 2,1

Mike Burger mburger at bubbanfriends.org
Tue Jun 20 17:17:17 UTC 2006


On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Bill Tangren wrote:

> I have a question regarding ssh on RHEL ES4. The man pages indicates that 
> Protocol 2,1 is enabled by default. Could someone explain the logic of this 
> to me? I thought Protocol 1 had a security flaw.

That would cause SSHD to require protocol 2, first, then fall back to 
protocol 1 if the client isn't protocol 2 capable.

If you want to restrict sshd to just protocol 2, remove the ",1".
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