[ale] Off Topic: Hacking SSH?

Nick Lucent nlucent at mindspring.com
Mon Dec 7 21:27:28 EST 1998


You could always rgrep through the source for version or version[]

Nick

On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, Nomad the Wanderer wrote:

> Ok,
>   I've put a server up that needs to be secur3e.  I've installed ssh 
> and turned off  everything else.  The omnipotent internal security people 
> are convinced that  the ssh prompt saying $User@$Server Password is a 
> security risk.  Even though You should know what $User you are loggied 
> in as or what $Server you are connecting to.  I've messed with the
> sshconnect.c and taken out that string.  Apparently, having sshd give you
> it's version number is also critial.  Anyone know if/how you can hack the
> version number?  I see alot of version number checking/comparrisons and don't
> wanna kill it by messing with something I should have..
> 
> 
> Robert
> 
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> 
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> 
> DISCLAIMER:
>       These are MY OPINIONS ALONE.  I speak for no-one else.
> 
> FYI:
>  perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
> 
> 






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