From owner-freebsd-security Wed Jul 10 13:17:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F33A37B400 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 13:17:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp-relay-1.adobe.com (smtp-relay-1.adobe.com [192.150.11.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F57F43E3B for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 13:17:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@mtbiker.net) Received: from inner-relay-2.corp.adobe.com (inner-relay-2 [153.32.1.52]) by smtp-relay-1.adobe.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6AKJKLG004750 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 13:19:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailsj-v1.corp.adobe.com (mailsj-dev.corp.adobe.com [153.32.1.192]) by inner-relay-2.corp.adobe.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6AKF1UU000692 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 13:15:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mtbiker.net ([153.32.129.64]) by mailsj-v1.corp.adobe.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15 v1 Jul 11 2001 16:32:57) with ESMTP id GZ1V0J00.J36 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 13:17:07 -0700 Message-ID: <3D2C9643.4090205@mtbiker.net> Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 13:17:07 -0700 From: John Martinez User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020611 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hiding OS name References: <006601c22627$a9199000$21020a0a@mti.itb.ac.id> <3D294723.7022CD07@pantherdragon.org> <001201c22689$6049a790$140115ac@BCDOMAIN01.COM> <20020708111122.A33379@nexusxi.com> <20020710175836.GF1118@hades.hell.gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > 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 :/ You're correct. Try doing an 'ssh -v' next time you use ssh. -john To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message