Wednesday, 31 May 2017

How to Identify SSH Client Version in linux

Sometimes it may be necessary to identify the SSH client that you are
currently running and it’s corresponding version number.

Use ssh –V to
identify the version number. Please note that Linux comes with OpenSSH.

The following example indicates that this particular system is using OpenSSH:

$ ssh -V
OpenSSH_3.9p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7a Feb 19 2003
The following example indicates that this particular system is using SSH2:

$ ssh -V
ssh: SSH Secure Shell 3.2.9.1 (non-commercial version)
on i686-pc-linux-gnu

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