On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 02:04:21PM -0800, Matt Roper wrote:
> The problem with using an alias like this is that it will keep you from
> connecting to sites that have only SSH1 servers (e.g. isun.ucdavis.edu).

So in those cases, why not use:

command ssh

or \ssh

?

> 
> I have encountered this SSH connection problem when trying to connect to
> the CS computers (which use SSH2) from any version of OpenSSH.  I have
> had no problem connecting to other SSH2 servers, which leads me to
> believe that the problem lies in the configuration of the server, not
> the OpenSSH client.  Using the -2 switch on the client does solve the
> problem if I just want to log into the computers, but I have not found
> any way to make scp work properly (there is no -2 switch for it).  On a
> side note, sftp works perfectly without any switches, but I assume that
> this is because sftp was never implemented over the SSH1 protocol (I
> think).
> 
> 
> Matt

You could always set the source code to use -2 for the default.

Micah

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