Re: SSH 2.4.0/3.0.1 usernames guessable ?

From: Marco van Berkum (m.v.berkum@obit.nl)
Date: 09/04/01 

Message-ID: <3B949C67.E74A4508@obit.nl>
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2001 11:18:31 +0200
From: Marco van Berkum <m.v.berkum@obit.nl>
To: Liran Cohen <Theog@ParadigmGeo.com>
Subject: Re: SSH 2.4.0/3.0.1 usernames guessable ?

Liran Cohen wrote:

>
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
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> Well that is the case with most of the network applications except
> apache (the ones I encountered) , however there is tool called
> Languard port scanner which can show you host responses,(relly
> kneet), If it bothers you I'm sure you can always download the ssh
> source code and change that response (just search for the string....)
>

Sure, or try OpenSSH or SSH 3.0.1.
I'm still not entirely sure of 3.0.1, I hear some vuln, some not ??
Can someone doubletest this plz?

grtz,
Marco van Berkum 

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