[CLUE-Tech] sshd question

[David Guntner]

Kevin Cullis grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>
> Found this in my /var/log/messages file, what is it?  It only started in
> this month.
>
> Aug  9 20:38:06 linux sshd[525]: Received signal 15; terminating.
> Aug 10 14:40:05 linux sshd[526]: Server listening on :: port 22.
> Aug 10 22:34:05 linux sshd[3926]: scanned from ::ffff:62.90.85.8 with
> SSH-1.0-SSH_Version_Mapper.  Don't panic.
> Aug 10 22:34:05 linux sshd[3925]: Did not receive identification string
> from ::ffff:62.90.85.8

Panic.

Then when you're done with that, :-) edit your /etc/ssh/sshd_config file
and find the line which reads:

Protocol 2,1

Make sure it just says:

Protocol 2

And then restart your sshd daemon.  Trust me, you *don't* want to support
Protocol 1.  At all.

               --Dave