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Date:      Tue, 9 Jul 2002 10:09:20 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Helge Oldach <helge.oldach@atosorigin.com>
To:        jay@eziba.com (Jay Sachs)
Cc:        DougB@FreeBSD.ORG, stanb@awod.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, des@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ssh to remote machines problem after cvsup
Message-ID:  <200207090809.KAA26773@galaxy.de.cp.philips.com>
In-Reply-To: <3D2A2A60.4090807@eziba.com> from Jay Sachs at "Jul 8, 2002  8:12:16 pm"

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Jay Sachs:
>Doug Barton wrote:
>> On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, stan wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>>I thought I would repost this with more information.
>>>
>>>I cvsup'd, rebuilt everythign, and ran mergemester this weekend on my
>>>4STABLE laptop. Now I'm having trouble ssh'ing to machines that could get
>>>to before.
>> 
>> 
>> This is because the default in ssh seems to have changed from "Protocol
>> 1,2" to "Protocol 2,1". The following in /etc/ssh/ssh_config and/or
>> ~/.ssh/config should do the trick for you:
>> 
>> Host *
>>   Protocol 1,2
>> 
>> DES,
>> 
>> 	Can we get this changed back for -stable? In addition to the POLA
>> thread in -security, this is just one of many user complaints on this
>> topic.
>
>There are those of us who consider the protocol switch a good change,
>and a move forward. It seems excessive to wait for the switch to
>5.0-RELEASE for this change, and somewhere between any two
>4.X releases seems just about right.

Agree. I would rather prefer several small changes like this one in
-STABLE than making a huge jump with numerous incompatibilities when 5.0
arrives. After all, what's the purpose of UPDATING when no changes at
all may be applied to STABLE.

Helge

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