From owner-freebsd-security Sun Feb 11 12:20: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mta5.snfc21.pbi.net (mta5.snfc21.pbi.net [206.13.28.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94DE637B401 for ; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 12:20:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from xor.obsecurity.org ([63.207.60.67]) by mta5.snfc21.pbi.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.01.05.12.18.p9) with ESMTP id <0G8M005AB09JUQ@mta5.snfc21.pbi.net> for freebsd-security@freebsd.org; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 12:15:23 -0800 (PST) Received: by xor.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 53C6266B32; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 12:18:04 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 12:18:04 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: Default sshd_config settings In-reply-to: <000701c0945c$eb3eaff0$0300a8c0@magus>; from willwong@samurai.com on Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 02:00:36PM -0500 To: William Wong Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Message-id: <20010211121803.A78601@mollari.cthul.hu> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="mP3DRpeJDSE+ciuQ" Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i References: <000701c0945c$eb3eaff0$0300a8c0@magus> Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --mP3DRpeJDSE+ciuQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 02:00:36PM -0500, William Wong wrote: > Hi there, >=20 > I wondering why only protocol 1 is enabled by default in sshd? Is there a > risk with using protocol 2 (or both?) It's not - you must have an out of date file, or are using an old version of -stable (very old versions of OpenSSH didn't support protocol 2). The risk is actually with protocol 1 -- it has protocol flaws which have been known for quite a while, independent of the recently discovered attacks. You should disable it unless you need it. Kris --mP3DRpeJDSE+ciuQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6hvN7Wry0BWjoQKURAnkMAKD8aP9UFGwgVFsC6O/XR4mB/sNseQCfZSKl cNrVHPU/KPNP9af8h0338v0= =hYDD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --mP3DRpeJDSE+ciuQ-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message