Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 20:58:36 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: "Dalin S. Owen" <dowen@nexusxi.com> Cc: Laurence Brockman <laurence@fluxinc.com>, security@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: hiding OS name Message-ID: <20020710175836.GF1118@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <20020708111122.A33379@nexusxi.com> References: <006601c22627$a9199000$21020a0a@mti.itb.ac.id> <3D294723.7022CD07@pantherdragon.org> <001201c22689$6049a790$140115ac@BCDOMAIN01.COM> <20020708111122.A33379@nexusxi.com>
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On 2002-07-08 11:11 +0000, Dalin S. Owen wrote: > Oh, one more thing, go in to the source for sshd and rip the "FreeBSD" > from the bannertext and maybe lie about what version of OpenSSH you have. That's not a good idea. Some of the parts of that banner line are used AFAIK by the SSH client to determine what features the server supports and what the protocol of the rest of the conversation is :/ I could be wrong though, so double check with the source code, before doing something like this. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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