sshd accepted fingerprint logging

Darren Tucker dtucker at zip.com.au
Wed Oct 2 12:45:27 EST 2013


On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 03:38:16PM -0600, Eldon Koyle wrote:
> Currently, LogLevel must be set to VERBOSE to see the fingerprint of an
> accepted key, and the default LogLevel is INFO.  Since this is useful
> security information, I would like to propose that the 'Accepted
> publickey' message be modified to include the fingerprint of the
> accepted key.  Is this a reasonable solution?

It's already in the 6.3 release at the default log level:

Accepted publickey for dtucker from 127.0.0.1 port 43693 ssh2: RSA [fingerprint]

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Darren Tucker (dtucker at zip.com.au)
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