AuthorizedKeysFile

[Markus Friedl]

we will remove AuthorizedKeysFile2 soon.

i don't like to have it documented.

-m

On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 02:35:59PM -0300, King, Brian wrote:
> OpenSSH 3.1
> 
> Not really a bug, but an "undocumented feature".
> The default sshd_config file show the default setting for AuthorizedKeysFile
> as being:
> 
> AuthorizedKeysFile      .ssh/authorized_keys
> 
> If you uncomment that default, it changes the "undocumented" setting for
> "AuthorizedKeysFile2", which is by default:
> 
> AuthorizedKeysFile2      .ssh/authorized_keys2
> 
> Suggestions for change:
>  1 - Add AuthorizedKeysFile2 to the man page for sshd.
>  2 - Add it's default setting to the default sshd_config file.
>  3 - Make the settings independent (so that setting only AuthorizedKeysFile
> doesn't remove the setting for AuthorizedKeysFile2).
> 
> Even better, would be to do away with AuthorizedKeysFile2 and have
> AuthorizedKeysFile work like HostKey in that you can use it multiple times
> in a config file to list multiple key files to check.
> 
> Thanks for a great product!
> 
> Brian King
> 
> PS. I don't read this list so any responses should be sent directly to me.
> 
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