Theo Van Dinter enscribed thusly:
> | In the manpage of ssh, the client is able to ask for a non-encryption
> | session.
> I'll ask the obvious -- why do you want to do this?
> | "Selected cipher type none not supported by server."
> | The ssh1 I am using is ssh1.2.27. I assume I am doing something
> | wrong here because if the client has an option to disable the encryption
> | the server should have the option too.
> by default (because it's insecure), the server will not allow non-encrypted
>connections. you'll have to recompile the server to explicitly allow that.
> but if you don't want encryption, why are you using SSH? use RSH.
Maybe he wants authentication and/or compression (neither of which
rsh has) and doesn't want to incure a performance penalty from the
encryption? Maybe he wants to do port forwarding and doesn't need security
(yes, I know, IP tunneling should be easier on SOME platforms).
I agree with the idea that this not a bright idea in general, but
maybe he has a specific application he need this for.
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