At 1/25/2002 08:26 AM -0500, you wrote: >I know there has been released a newer version of openssh but is my >version up-to-date enough? Can someone explain to me why people use >scanssh and what is going on here? What does retricting to just protocol 2 >do for me?
1. Although I can't speak with authority, I'd be comfortable that 2.9p2 is up-to-date enough since that's the version posted for Red Hat 7.2. 2. People are scanning you to try to crack your machine, then either use it to launch other attacks, or destroy or mangle your system just to prove they can and compensate for needle-dick complex. (Or teeny-tit complex for the females among them.) 3. There have been a couple of flaws found in the SSH-1 protocol that make it unsafe (or less safe) to use, and all of the tools that you use are capable of using the newer SSH-2 protocol. So you are disallowing the older, less safe protocol to make sure you are not vulnerable to those flaws. -- Rodolfo J. Paiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
