bug in documentation for "Protocol" option
Pekka Savola
pekkas at netcore.fi
Wed Nov 8 08:20:13 EST 2000
On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, joel w. reed wrote:
> ssh.1 says
>
> Protocol Specifies the protocol versions ssh should support in order of
> preference. The possible values are ``1'' and ``2''. Multiple
> versions must be comma-separated. The default is ``1,2''. This
> means that ssh tries version 1 and falls back to version 2 if
> version 1 is not available.
>
> but /etc/ssh/ssh_config shows the default for Protocol as...
>
> # Port 22
> # Protocol 2,1
> # Cipher blowfish
>
> one of the above should be fixed.
Both are correct.
ssh uses Protocol 1 by default if nothing else is defined. What's written
_commented out_ in ssh_config is of no consequence; default Cipher isn't
blowfish either, etc..
If you uncomment the line there, it obviously changes the default ...
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