Re: ssh update

["Ralph M. Deal" <deal@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:

> >Using the old version of ssh (1.2.27) I could communicate with
> >kalamazoolinux.org but NOT with a recently established ssh at my major
> >email site: kzoo.edu.   It seemed to be a version problem, the version at
> >kzoo.edu (a solaris system) being 2.2.  So I checked freshmeat and sure
> >enough there was an updated version, ssh-2.3.0, so I Uvh'd it and
> >eventually got the kzoo.edu to work reliably as long as I use ssh2 as the
> >connection command, but I could NOT connect with ssh on
> >kalamazoolinux.org.   I discussed this with Bruce Smith a bit and updating
> >the KLUG site version did not seem likely to happen for a while.
> >Fortunately just now I tried the command
> >ssh1, not knowing if it even existed and sure enough, IT WORKED!
> 
> So I'm not crazy.  SSH v1.x and SSH v2.x are quite diffrent animals, and
> incompatible to boot.

Quite right but note that I used Uvh with rpm, hence destroyed the version
1.2.27.  Hence the ssh1 I now use to get into KLUG is built into the 2.3.0
version.  So one need only have one version of ssh installed.

	Ralph    deal@kzoo.edu