In order to ssh into a SuSE 9.0 box from Windows using PuTTY, you have to select "Connection - SSH - Preferred SSH Protocol Version - 2" to ssh into the box. Is there anything on the SSH server that I can change so that I don't have to manually select the SSH version to use everytime?
This in itself I don't understand already. As far as I understand sshd, it supports both protocol version. Perhaps you should check in your /var/log/ files (like /var/log/messages) to see why it will not connect using protocol 1. I just tried it on my SuSE 8.2 box with ssh -1 and ssh -2, and both worked without any trouble. Is it just PuTTY, or does ssh -1 localhost not work for you either?
Regards,
Pieter Hulshoff
Yes, it doesn't work with v1 at all on SuSE 9.0, but it works fine on SuSE 8.2. sx270:/etc/ssh # ssh -l 1 localhost Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive). sx270:/etc/ssh # In /var/log/messages, these are the errors generated from the failed PuTTY logins using ssh v1... Mar 4 16:14:01 sx270 sshd[2717]: Failed password for root from ::ffff:192.0.1.60 port 4997 Mar 4 16:14:04 sx270 sshd[2717]: Connection closed by ::ffff:192.0.1.60 When you try to connect from localhost using "ssh -l 1", these are the errors generated in /var/log/messages... Mar 4 16:15:17 sx270 sshd[2746]: Illegal user 1 from ::1 Mar 4 16:15:17 sx270 sshd[2746]: input_userauth_request: illegal user 1 Mar 4 16:15:17 sx270 sshd[2746]: Failed none for illegal user 1 from ::1 port 32786 ssh2 Mar 4 16:15:17 sx270 sshd[2746]: Postponed keyboard-interactive for illegal user 1 from ::1 port 32786 ssh2 Mar 4 16:15:19 sx270 sshd[2746]: Failed keyboard-interactive/pam for illegal user 1 from ::1 port 32786 ssh2 Mar 4 16:15:19 sx270 sshd[2746]: error: PAM: System error Mar 4 16:15:19 sx270 sshd[2746]: Failed keyboard-interactive for illegal user 1 from ::1 port 32786 ssh2 Mar 4 16:15:19 sx270 sshd[2746]: error: PAM: System error Mar 4 16:15:19 sx270 sshd[2746]: Failed keyboard-interactive for illegal user 1 from ::1 port 32786 ssh2 Mar 4 16:15:19 sx270 sshd[2746]: Connection closed by ::1 Thanks, Chris