Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 09:47:20 +0000 (UTC) From: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net> To: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src UPDATING Message-ID: <20080903094624.I65801@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net> In-Reply-To: <86ej41d0q4.fsf@ds4.des.no> References: <200809012355.m81NtjZT038288@repoman.freebsd.org> <20080903002453.I65801@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net> <86ej41d0q4.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --0-798662833-1220435240=:65801 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote: Hi, > "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net> writes: >> So I had an updated ssh client in use since at least Aug 22 and it >> didn't bother me to ask about any remote machines. >> >> Now that people are updating their 7-STABLE machines, those 7-STABLE >> machines with an OpenSSH 5.1p1 start to pop up and do the DSA vs. RSA >> fingerprint dance for the host keys (at least until I added this to >> line 1 of my ~/.ssh/config as hinted with this UPDATING entry: >> =09HostKeyAlgorithms ssh-dss,ssh-rsa >> ). >> >> To my understanding this should have happened 10 days ago to me. >> I wonder why the peer needs to be updated as well for this? > > Because older servers don't have RSA keys (or rather, they don't load > them). Instead of just inverting the order, whoever decided that we > should prefer DSA to RSA (before my time) just removed the two lines of > code that load the RSA key. > > 8 will load both RSA and DSA keys, as intended. So will 7, but that was > actually a mis-merge on my part. I will revert it as soon as I get > re@'s approval. Ah, makes much more sense now. Thanks for explaining (and fixing in 7:) /bz --=20 Bjoern A. Zeeb Stop bit received. Insert coin for new game. --0-798662833-1220435240=:65801--
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