[H-GEN] How safe is SSH on the internet?

[Mark Suter]

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stuart> Just a question about SSH... I'm running a Red Hat 8.0 box as our
stuart> web/mail/dns/irc server for our domain with Linux 2.4.21, and was
stuart> wondering whether it would be a safe move to allow SSH access so that I
stuart> can do file uploads and remote maintenance.

Force protocol version in /etc/ssh/sshd_config as this prevents a
number of potential problems:

    $ grep Protocol /etc/ssh/sshd_config 
    Protocol 2

Yours sincerely,

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