OpenSSH on Solaris -fron SUN

[Darren Tucker]

J.D. Bronson wrote:

> I noticed this on DEBUG startup of Sun's SSH:
> 
> debug2: mac_init: found hmac-sha1
> debug2: mac_init: found hmac-md5
> debug1: sshd version Sun_SSH_1.0
> debug1: Bad RSA1 key file /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key.
> debug1: read SSH2 private key done: name rsa w/o comment success 1

I assume you're referring to the "Bad RSA1 key file" message?

Current versions of OpenSSH say "Not a RSA1 key file" but it's just the 
way sshd detects if a keyfile is for SSH v1 or v2: it tries loading is 
as a v1 key first (which generates that warning if it's a v2 key), and 
if that fails it tries it as a v2 key.

(See key_load_private() in authfile.c).

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