Subject: Re: "ssh" with SSHv2 public key buggy?
To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.3miasto.net>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 10/08/2001 08:27:44
On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > Probably just a paranoid tendency, or perhaps a bad habbit. On the other
> > hand, I also always set ServerKeyBits to 2048, regen /etc/host_dsa_key,
> > set Protocol=2 in /etc/sshd.conf, and alway drop "alias ssh='/usr/bin/ssh
> > -v -2' " into /etc/profile, then chmod 0000 /usr/bin/rsh, rlogin, etc.
>
> V2 protocol is incredibly slow, even with default keysize.
> i always set Protocol=1,2 in sshd.conf and ssh.conf
Well I don't have a choice. The administrator disabled ssh v1 because
of an alleged security problem, pending confirmation (FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE).
Frederick