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How do I find out which version of Secure Shell is running at the remote end?

April 26, 2017remote running Secure Shell version

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How do I find out which version of Secure Shell is running at the remote end?

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The simpliest way is to do a telnet hostname 22. The response you get is something like SSH-[1.99]-2.x.x for a version 2 server and SSH-[1.5]-1.x.x for a version 1 server.