Bug 1479

Summary:	only ssh and sshd show version numbers
Product:	Portable OpenSSH	Reporter:	Lars Noodén <lars.nooden>
Component:	ssh-add	Assignee:	Assigned to nobody <unassigned-bugs>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	bugzilla.mindrot.org, djm
Priority:	P5
Version:	-current
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux

Description Lars Noodén 2008-06-16 05:18:02 AEST

Only the ssh program itself shows its version easily. e.g.

   $ ssh -V
   OpenSSH_4.8, OpenSSL 0.9.7j 04 May 2006

The others, seem to be missing an option which produces a version number:

sshd
ssh-add
ssh-agent
ssh-keygen
ssh-keyscan
scanssh

Comment 1 Damien Miller 2008-06-25 15:32:49 AEST

Is an option for each program really necessary? Do you mix and match installed versions of OpenSSH components?

Comment 2 Uwe Hermann 2008-08-04 02:15:58 AEST

*** Bug 1292 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Marc Bejarano 2016-02-27 03:24:58 AEDT

certainly the an option for each program isn't necessary, but a better question is "Is an option for each program useful?".

what makes it more useful for ssh and sshd than for the others?

i don't purposefully mix and match installed versions of OpenSSH components, but sometimes i use systems that i don't maintain.