Re: Can SSH be used just for encrypted authentication and then let the rest of the session be unencrypted ?

[Aran Cox]

On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 05:53:07PM -0500, Bob Babcock wrote:
> > Like my the subject states; Can SSH be used just for encrypted 
> > authentication and then let the rest of the session be unencrypted?.
> 
> I'd like to be able to do this too, but it would be easy to get in trouble.
> Say you ssh from machine A to machine B, then from B you ssh to machine C.
> If only the authentication is encrypted, you've just sent your login
> information for machine C over the A-to-B link unencrypted.

Why wouldn't you want to encrypt the entire session?  Are your machines
so slow that it's actually an issue?  ssh makes it just as easy to 
encrypt everything, so why mess with a Good Thing?