ssh-keyscan for ssh2 (was Re: openssh-2.9p1)

Markus Friedl Markus.Friedl at informatik.uni-erlangen.de
Sat May 19 07:06:38 EST 2001


On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 01:44:37PM -0700, Wayne Davison wrote:
> On Fri, 18 May 2001, Markus Friedl wrote:
> > you need this if you want to select DSA vs RSA:
> >
> >         myproposal[PROPOSAL_SERVER_HOST_KEY_ALGS] = "ssh-dss";
> 
> I'm still learning about all the subtleties here, so I don't know if I
> want to select DSA vs RSA or not.  Without this change, my patched
> ssh-keyscan returns a ssh-rsa key from a 2.5.2p2 host.  With this change
> it returns a ssh-dss key.  Do we want both keys or just the ssh-dss key?
> Should this decision be different for older server versions?

i think we should have
	-t {rsa1,dsa,rsa}
just like ssh-keygen (ok, -t is already used for timeout).



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