[UCLA-LUG] "uinstalling"

[Patrick Oscar Boykin]

Be a little careful with this "wisdom" many times older versions have
known exploits (security holes) and thus the reason for the update.

If you are using ssh, you are doing so for security, and it defeats the
purpose if you do not pay attention to *WHY* some of the updates came out
(for instance, I think 2.0.12 did have a hole and that resulted in 2.0.13)

if you are getting an illegal protocol error, it may be better to try to
diagnose that problem than just trying another version to see if it goes
away.

Oscar.

On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Thomas Chen wrote:

> A couple months ago I had installed ssh version 2.0.13, I got illegal protocol
> error messages and, the advice from this mailing list was to go for an older,
> more established version.  Well, my question is now, how do get rid of 2.0.13? 
> There isn't some magic unistall command I take it.  I've always wondered.  With
> rpm, it's very easy and trivial, but when you are the one doing the make, how
> do you later on get rid of the files you installed?  Thanks in advanced.
> 
> -thomas
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