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I'm not happy with ssh being setuid root. I know that the long-term goal is to have a seperate host-key-management process, but that is a ways off. Until then, I'd like to propose the following: - Allow ssh to read alternate key files. This would allow the ssh client to use keyfiles different from the ones sshd uses. I know that this can be done now by changing the ones sshd uses,

...hanks. |Unlike the 'old' ssh (Package: ssh; Version: 1.2.26-1.2)'s scp |openssh's scp does not support the -L option which according to |old ssh's manpage does the following: |> -L Use non privileged port. With this you cannot use |> rhosts or rsarhosts authentications, but it can be |> used to bypass some firewalls that dont allow privi? |> leged source ports to pass. Same as saying "-o |> UsePriviledgePort=no" or -P to ssh; -L is used due |> to exhaustion of suitab...

I've installed OpenSSH 2.9p1 on Solaris 2.7 and I am trying to get rhost authentication working. Something appears to be wrong with the client side as I can do rhost auth with a ssh1.2.27 client. Any help would be appreciated. /opt/openssh-2.9p1/etc/ssh_config is: ForwardX11 yes RhostsAuthentication yes /opt/openssh-2.9p1/etc/sshd_config is: Port 22 IgnoreRhosts no StrictModes yes