[Bug 1747] New: AuthorizedKeysFile not working as advertised

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https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1747

           Summary: AuthorizedKeysFile not working as advertised
           Product: Portable OpenSSH
           Version: 5.4p1
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: major
          Priority: P2
         Component: sshd
        AssignedTo: unassigned-bugs at mindrot.org
        ReportedBy: dtpflug at gmail.com


In the upgrade from 5.3 to 5.4, my pubkey authentication stopped
working. I investigated and found this in the logs:

Mar 29 19:46:42 dpflug-desktop sshd[18203]: debug1: trying public key
file //.ssh/authorized_keys

That's the only place it checks for authorized_keys.

I asked in #openssh and was told that commenting out AuthorizedKeysFile
in the config has helped some people.

In the sshd_config man page, it states:
After expansion, AuthorizedKeysFile is taken to be an absolute path or
one relative to the user's home directory.  The default is
``.ssh/authorized_keys''.

I have "AuthorizedKeysFile .ssh/authorized_keys" in my sshd_config, but
it's not working. Commenting it out did help:

Mar 29 19:52:12 dpflug-desktop sshd[18323]: debug1: matching key found:
file /home/dpflug/.ssh/authorized_keys, line 1

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