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Re: Packages to remove from frozen



On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 08:37:06PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
> OpenSSH is compatible with the original SSH. I use my Palm Vx with TopGun
> ssh to login to OpenSSH servers all the time.

Hmm. Why do I get this stupid message when I log into certain servers:
Warning: Server lies about size of server host key: actual size is 1023
bits vs. announced 1024.
Warning: This may be due to an old implementation of ssh.

Not very backward-compatible, is it? In some environments it's desirable
to have the software behave the same on every platform; even if it's
buggy, the bugs need to be consistent. The behavior of openssh is *not*
100% identical to the behavior of ssh. Until it is, there's a place for
both. (I was also less than amused when the location of the config files
in ssh moved to ssh-nonfree. What was the point of that gratuitous
incompatibility?)

-- 
Mike Stone

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