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Bug#481232: marked as done (mysterious DSAAuthentication option found)

Your message dated Sun, 25 May 2008 21:06:35 +0100
with message-id <20080525200635.GT16645@riva.ucam.org>
and subject line Re: Bug#481232: mysterious DSAAuthentication option found
has caused the Debian Bug report #481232,
regarding mysterious DSAAuthentication option found
to be marked as done.

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Package: openssh-client
Version: 1:4.7p1-8
Severity: normal

I found the DSAAuthentication option in my .ssh/config, which is not
or no longer documented in ssh_config(5). What's weird is that after
removing all my DSA keys and using RSA for everything, setting it to
no prevents logins. It appears that it has to be set to yes. Sounds
fishy...

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1+scoflowctrl.1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages openssh-client depends on:
ii  adduser               3.107              add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.21             Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                  1.14.19            package maintenance system for Deb
ii  libc6                 2.7-11             GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcomerr2            1.40.8-2           common error description library
ii  libedit2              2.9.cvs.20050518-4 BSD editline and history libraries
ii  libkrb53              1.6.dfsg.3-2       MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libncurses5           5.6+20080503-1     Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libssl0.9.8           0.9.8g-10          SSL shared libraries
ii  passwd                1:4.1.1-1          change and administer password and
ii  zlib1g                1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12  compression library - runtime

Versions of packages openssh-client recommends:
ii  xauth                         1:1.0.3-1  X authentication utility

-- no debconf information


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On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 06:57:58PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> I found the DSAAuthentication option in my .ssh/config, which is not
> or no longer documented in ssh_config(5). What's weird is that after
> removing all my DSA keys and using RSA for everything, setting it to
> no prevents logins. It appears that it has to be set to yes. Sounds
> fishy...

It's an alias for PubkeyAuthentication, presumably dating from a time
when only DSA was supported for SSH protocol 2 (at a guess). Turning
that off will indeed prevent authentication if you're relying on it, as
many people do.

I assume it's no longer documented because it doesn't make a lot of
sense under that name any more!

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]

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