Sujet : Re: What programs do you make sure are installed on a new Linux install?
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : comp.os.linux.miscDate : 08. Jun 2025, 22:43:34
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On Sun, 8 Jun 2025 09:53:05 -0000 (UTC), Jason H wrote:
On 08/06/2025 10:17, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
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I have come across one or two situations where the Dropbear client
would connect to an SSH server where OpenSSH (by default) would
not. The difference was that Dropbear was more willing to tolerate
old, insecure encryption algorithms which OpenSSH rejected.
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Not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing ...
You can get OpenSSH to accept an older algorithm (either at the command
line or in your ~.ssh/config.
I know, I have done that. I seem to recall a situation where even that
didn’t help ...