Jeremy Portzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 20/09/2007 02:00:21 PM: > Are you sure this is a standard option? I've tried this in the past and
> never been able to make it work, and on my current system it just gives: > > $ ssh -c none localhost > No valid ciphers for protocol version 2 given, using defaults. > > $ ssh -V > OpenSSH_4.3p2 Debian-8ubuntu1, OpenSSL 0.9.8c 05 Sep 2006 > > Maybe the null cipher is available if you use SSH protocol version 1, > but I don't have any servers that support ssh v1 anymore. I should've done more investigations; openssh doesn't allow the cipher "none" (anymore), the proprietary ssh has the option. There are patches to enable cipher none in openssh if its really needed. Regards, Scott -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html