From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 23 16:35:59 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4D4516A4CE for ; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 16:35:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: from priv-edtnes28.telusplanet.net (outbound04.telus.net [199.185.220.223]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6125A43D1D for ; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 16:35:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from aaron@daltons.ca) Received: from d137-186-216-226.abhsia.telus.net ([137.186.216.226]) by priv-edtnes28.telusplanet.netESMTP <20040723163557.GHNL27249.priv-edtnes28.telusplanet.net@d137-186-216-226.abhsia.telus.net> for ; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 10:35:57 -0600 From: Aaron Dalton To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 10:36:54 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <20040723120101.C832C16A4D9@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20040723120101.C832C16A4D9@hub.freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200407231036.54467.aaron@daltons.ca> Subject: Hiding SSH version string X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 16:36:00 -0000 I've read a number of times that people hide their ssh version string so that attackers don't know what version you are running. I've read the documentation and can't seem to figure out how to do this. Can somebody explain to me how this is done? Thank you so much! Cheers! Aaron