Call for testing: OpenSSH 8.5

Damien Miller djm at mindrot.org
Wed Feb 24 08:56:06 AEDT 2021


On Tue, 23 Feb 2021, Jakub Jelen wrote:

> On 2/23/21 9:40 PM, Jakub Jelen wrote:
> > On 2/23/21 2:46 AM, Damien Miller wrote:
> >>   * ssh(1), sshd(8): rename the PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes keyword to
> >>     PubkeyAcceptedAlgorithms. The previous name incorrectly suggested
> >>     that it control allowed key algorithms, when this option actually
> >>     specifies the signature algorithms that are accepted. The previous
> >>     name remains available as an alias. bz#3253
> > 
> > There is still one place in the manual page that refers to this meaning 
> > as key types in last snap:
> > 
> > commit c0a8a29c2487a2fcf83fdcd7a76cbdbe76fa7f73
> > Author: Jakub Jelen <jjelen at redhat.com>
> > Date:   Tue Feb 23 21:38:24 2021 +0100
> > 
> >      sshd_config: Fix reference to algorithms as keys
> > 
> > diff --git a/sshd_config.5 b/sshd_config.5
> > index 108027b5..6376db10 100644
> > --- a/sshd_config.5
> > +++ b/sshd_config.5
> > @@ -1517,7 +1517,7 @@ sk-ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 at openssh.com,
> >   rsa-sha2-512,rsa-sha2-256,ssh-rsa
> >   .Ed
> >   .Pp
> > -The list of available key types may also be obtained using
> > +The list of available signature algorithsm may also be obtained using
> >   .Qq ssh -Q PubkeyAcceptedAlgorithms .
> >   .It Cm PubkeyAuthOptions
> >   Sets one or more public key authentication options.
> > 
> > 
> > Regards,
> 
> Obviously, the same is also in the ssh_config so attaching another 
> attempt also with a fixed typo in the previous.

Thanks - I have fixed these and a few more that were lurking under
HostbasedAcceptedAlgorithms and HostKeyAlgorithms.

-d


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