Mailing List Archive: [Bug 610] sshd should display the openssl version string from usage()

[Bug 610] sshd should display the openssl version string from usage()

bugzilla-daemon at mindrot

Jun 30, 2003, 4:21 PM

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http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=610

Summary: sshd should display the openssl version string from
usage()
Product: Portable OpenSSH
Version: -current
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: P5
Component: sshd
AssignedTo: openssh-bugs@mindrot.org
ReportedBy: mindrot@ee.lbl.gov

It would be nice if "ssh -\?" reported the openssl version string.

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Jun 30, 2003, 4:23 PM

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------- Additional Comments From mindrot@ee.lbl.gov 2003-07-01 10:23 -------
Created an attachment (id=349)
--> (http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/attachment.cgi?id=349&action=view)
patch to sshd.c

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Jun 30, 2003, 4:25 PM

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------- Additional Comments From mindrot@ee.lbl.gov 2003-07-01 10:25 -------
Created an attachment (id=350)
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proposed output

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Jun 30, 2003, 4:32 PM

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------- Additional Comments From dtucker@zip.com.au 2003-07-01 10:32 -------
Perhaps sshd should understand -V same as ssh? (Hmm, -V appears to be
already used by sshd for an undocumented option...)

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Jun 30, 2003, 5:32 PM

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------- Additional Comments From mindrot@ee.lbl.gov 2003-07-01 11:32 -------
You're right but notice that -V takes an argument and so if you naively run
"sshd -V" it prints out the usage() message and you still get to see the version
strings.

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Jun 30, 2003, 5:47 PM

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------- Additional Comments From dtucker@zip.com.au 2003-07-01 11:47 -------
I'm wondering if the undocumented -V option should be either replaced or
documented.

It sets the client SSH protocol version from the command line when used with
inetd but I can't figure out what use that might be.

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Jul 1, 2003, 12:11 AM

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------- Additional Comments From markus@openbsd.org 2003-07-01 18:11 -------
-V is used by the commercial ssh.com v2 implementation to
execute a ssh v1 capable server in compatibility mode.

its not supposed to be used by anyone else.

but i think we can remove -V now and implement -V similar to ssh(1).

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Jul 1, 2003, 2:12 AM

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------- Additional Comments From dtucker@zip.com.au 2003-07-01 20:12 -------
Created an attachment (id=352)
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Make sshd's -V like ssh's

Ah, that explains it: the v2 sshd would just exec the v1 sshd with that option
after the first line of input. I didn't know that OpenSSH's sshd could be used
that way.

Anyway, attached patch (stolen from ssh.c) looks like this:
$ ./sshd -V
OpenSSH_3.6.1p2, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0.9.6b [engine] 9 Jul 2001

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