[Gllug] RSA or DSA

[Alain Williams]

On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 10:36:58AM +0000, Dani Pardo wrote:
> Steve Nelson wrote:
> 
> >>debug1: Client protocol version 1.5; client software version OpenSSH_2.9p2
> >
> >DSA keys don't work with protocol 1.
> >
> 
>   Ouch! That was the problem!. ssh -2 dest_machine did the job.
> 
> I thougt ssh client would first try version 2, and then version 1.
>   I've tried generating RSA keys, and work directly (no need to tell
> ssh -2). Thanks, that issue was a long-ago TODO, and never got time to rtfm.

Don't use version 1 anyway ... there is some flaw (I can't remember the details).

In /etc/ssh/sshd_config insert the line:

	Protocol 2

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