Bug#633368: ssh hostbased authentication fails when ECDSA keys are available

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Sat, Jul 09, 2011 at 01:25:35PM -0400, Wakko Warner wrote:
> If I have hostbased authentication enabled and attempt to ssh to another
> system, hostbased authentication always fails and falls back to password
> authentication.
> 
> If I remove /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_key* and try again, everything works.
> 
> I found this bug report from Feb 2011:
> http://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-bugs/2011-February/010105.html

Thanks.  I've backported this patch for my next Debian upload.

> Apparently, this is fixed in 5.9 which debian does not appear to have yet.

That's because it hasn't been released upstream yet either. :-)  The bug
report says "This will be in 5.9" - future tense.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]