Bug#851573: openssh-server: no docs on why RSAAuthentication is deprecated

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

Control: tag -1 pending

On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 12:57:34PM +0100, Francesco Potortì wrote:
> In /var/log/daemon.log I find:
> 
> Jan 16 12:53:57 tucano systemd[1]: Starting OpenBSD Secure Shell server...
> Jan 16 12:53:57 tucano sshd[14680]: /etc/ssh/sshd_config line 33: Deprecated option RSAAuthentication
> Jan 16 12:53:57 tucano sshd[14680]: /etc/ssh/sshd_config line 40: Deprecated option RhostsRSAAuthentication
> Jan 16 12:53:57 tucano systemd[1]: Started OpenBSD Secure Shell server.
> 
> but I can find no info on why those options are being deprecated and
> what one should do about them.

Those options are specific to the ancient protocol 1, and you should
just remove them.  I've documented this for my next upload:

  https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-ssh/openssh.git/commit/?id=fb87db8aa47d3508be8e5bb1d21897fa1f2eca90

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]