openssh bugs - Aug 2004 - [Bug 921] Add operating system to OpenSSH version string

http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=921

           Summary: Add operating system to OpenSSH version string
           Product: Portable OpenSSH
           Version: -current
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: sshd
        AssignedTo: openssh-bugs at mindrot.org
        ReportedBy: eric_wade_brown at yahoo.com


It would be very nice if the sshd version string included an operating system 
identifier.  Many other SSH servers do include this info.  For example, 
SSH.com's server version string is "SSH-2.0-4.1.3.2 SSH Secure Shell
Windows
NT Server" for windows.  Also, Solaris SunSSH identifies itself as
"SSH-2.0-
Sun_SSH_1.0".  In fact, even OpenSSH identifies OpenBSD as the operating 
system when the "p" for portable is missing from the string.  

I use the scanssh tool frequently to check which SSH systems are on the 
network.  When the SSH server is OpenSSH, I cannot identify the operating 
system unless I go through authentication.  OpenSSH now runs on some switches 
nowadays.  In that case it would be nice to know if the SSH server at that IP 
address is a system or a device.

My suggestion is that the version string to change from "SSH-2.0-OpenSSH-
3.8.1" to some like "SSH-2.0-OpenSSH-3.8.1-hpux",
"SSH-2.0-OpenSSH-3.8.1-
aix", "SSH-2.0-OpenSSH-3.8.1-linux-i686", etc. 

At build time the "version.h" containing the default string can be
generated
depending on the platform it's built on.



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------- Additional Comments From dtucker at zip.com.au  2004-08-28 15:42 -------
That seems like a bad idea to me.  OpenSSH is an SSH implementation, not an
inventory system.  If you're authorized to log on to the box and want to
know
what it's running, log on and run "uname -sr".  If you're not
authorized then
sshd shouldn't give free hints.

SunSSH may be based on OpenSSH originally, but it's a fork and current
versions
behave very differently.  Even a "p" version doesn't guarantee
that it's *not*
running on OpenBSD: Portable builds and runs fine on OpenBSD too (in fact,
it's
the only supported way to run current OpenSSH on older OpenBSD releases).



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dtucker at zip.com.au changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX



------- Additional Comments From dtucker at zip.com.au  2004-09-11 17:08 -------
We're not going to do this.  If anything, we may go the other way and remove
the
"p" extension from the SSH banner.



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