From owner-freebsd-security Wed Jul 10 17:37:45 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 BC00337B400 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 17:37:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nexusxi.com (balistraria.nexusxi.com [216.123.202.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D131143E3B for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 17:37:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dowen@nexusxi.com) Received: (qmail 66092 invoked by uid 1000); 11 Jul 2002 00:37:34 -0000 Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 18:37:34 -0600 From: "Dalin S. Owen" To: John Martinez Cc: security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hiding OS name Message-ID: <20020710183734.C66016@nexusxi.com> 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> <3D2C9643.4090205@mtbiker.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <3D2C9643.4090205@mtbiker.net>; from john@mtbiker.net on Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 01:17:07PM -0700 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 On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 01:17:07PM -0700, John Martinez wrote: > > 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 nah. just the SSH- line is important. everyone knows that. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message