[lug] ssh versions

[cool at eklektix.com]

OpenSSH 2.1.1 is compatible with both the ssh 1 and ssh 2 protocols
and should work fine no matter which protocol you need to use.

Liz Coolbaugh (for the LWN team)
cool at lwn.net


On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 04:09:25PM -0600, D. Stimits wrote:
> I needed to install ssh2 on my machine, and downloaded what I found for
> ssh, partly via srpms, partly via binary rpm:
> ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/distributions/redhat/contrib/libc6/
> 
> After the install, I expected to see ssh2, but saw ssh. Version
> indicated:
> # ssh -V
> SSH Version OpenSSH_2.1.1, protocol versions 1.5/2.0.
> Compiled with SSL (0x0090581f).
> 
> I'm not sure if this is the wrong version or not. I see the 2.1.1 in
> there, yet it is named ssh for the client executable. Is ssh2 somewhere
> else?
> 
> Thanks,
> D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com
> 
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