[21048] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [rootshell] Security Bulletin #25
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (C. Harald Koch)
Mon Nov 2 15:33:16 1998
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 01 Nov 1998 15:45:13 -0500".
<Pine.LNX.4.05.9811011244040.23543-100000@kit.rootshell.com>
From: "C. Harald Koch" <chk@utcc.utoronto.ca>
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 1998 23:34:01 -0500
In message <Pine.LNX.4.05.9811011244040.23543-100000@kit.rootshell.com>, Kit Knox writes:
> Option 2: If possible, upgrade to version 2.0.x of SSH. This version supports
> a newer, more capable version of the SSH protocol and offers
> additional features.
Interesting.
SSH 2.0 has a more restrictive software license than 1.2.26. The paranoid
among us would wonder whether this was a deliberate attempt to convince
people to upgrade to 2.0, incidentally forcing many of them to pay for
the new license.
Nah; nobody would exploit FUD to make a buck, would they?
<grin>
--
C. Harald Koch <chk@utcc.utoronto.ca>
"It takes a child to raze a village."
-Michael Fry
