openssh-SNAP-20001016

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 07:02:55PM +0200, Markus Friedl wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 05:20:35PM +0200, Gert Doering wrote:
> > -> so it seems sshd SNAP-20001016 doesn't even offer rhosts
> > authentication, no?  (same client machine, same call to ssh, except
> > the second one has "ssh -p 6022 ...")
> 
> for rhosts+rsa server port has to be <1024.

Why?  I might see some reasoning (caution against rogue servers), but I'd
see "password authentication" as a worse risk than proving that you have a
certain private key.

gert
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