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Date:      Wed, 23 Oct 2002 09:16:43 -0700
From:      David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU>
To:        Steven Ames <steve@virtual-voodoo.com>
Cc:        Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Request: remove ssh1 fallback
Message-ID:  <20021023161643.GA7813@HAL9000.homeunix.com>
In-Reply-To: <004401c27aad$740a5400$33d90c42@officescape.net>
References:  <007501c27a5c$27203fc0$6501a8c0@VAIO650> <20021023155753.GB7503@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <004401c27aad$740a5400$33d90c42@officescape.net>

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Thus spake Steven Ames <steve@virtual-voodoo.com>:
> > 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.

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