meh. keeping this short. I'm an idiot, kinda. :) SSH is a complicated mess, that's my excuse. Basically, this sums it up: RSA = v2 (*not* v1) RSA1 = v1 DSA = v2
So, when I said it was doing v1 when it should be v2, I meant it was doing RSA when it should be doing DSA. And then realized that that was the default, and it was doing what it was supposed to. eh. Reading the fine manual: HostKeyAlgorithms Specfies the protocol version 2 host key algorithms that the client wants to use in order of preference. The default for this option is: ``ssh-rsa,ssh-dss'' ...which is a *client* problem, when I'd been looking at the server all along, and not quite knowing what was going on anyway. :) Just so you guys can stop wondering what the hell I'm going on about, :) Mike McGuire