Hiding SSH version string

2004-07-23 Thread Aaron Dalton
I've read a number of times that people hide their ssh version string so that attackers don't know what version you are running. I've read the documentation and can't seem to figure out how to do this. Can somebody explain to me how this is done? Thank you so much! Cheers! Aaron

Re: Hiding SSH version string

2004-07-23 Thread Markie
- Original Message - From: Aaron Dalton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 5:36 PM Subject: Hiding SSH version string | I've read a number of times that people hide their ssh version string so that | attackers don't know what version you are running

[Off-topic] Re: Hiding SSH version string

2004-07-23 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
[Markie, 2004-07-23] The hackers are likely to just try whatever exploit anyway. They'll even probably be thinking Oh, they're hiding their version... probably quite old :-) Best just to keep up to date. I know that in modern English the word hacker has more than one meaning, but I think

Re: Hiding SSH version string

2004-07-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Aaron Dalton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've read a number of times that people hide their ssh version string so that attackers don't know what version you are running. I've read the documentation and can't seem to figure out how to do this. Can somebody explain to me how this is done?

Re: Hiding SSH version string

2004-07-23 Thread Aaron Dalton
On July 23, 2004 07:10 pm, Lowell Gilbert wrote: I don't recommend anyone actually do this, because a) it serves no purpose (it certainly doesn't make you any more secure, or even discourage any attackers) b) The version string is a part of the protocol itself, required by the