sshd doesn't log which RSA key was used

Christian Kurz shorty at debian.org
Fri Dec 29 00:07:15 EST 2000


Hi guys,

and another feature request for sshd which I would classify as really
useful. And I think this behaviour is currently not available (If yes,
sorry, I must have missed it):

> I believe that the sshd should log which RSA key was used to connect to
> an account.  When there are a number of keys in the authorized_keys file
> it is often useful to know which one was used for each login.  I have
> been looking at the code for this but have not been able to determine
> where to add this.  The problem is that the authentication is done by
> number only.  It seems that the best way to make it work the way I want
> would be to use a "struct Key" type all through the authentication
> process.  But I have been getting lost in the code.

Ciao
     Christian
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