Call for testing: OpenSSH 6.8
Damien Miller
djm at mindrot.org
Fri Feb 20 09:45:59 AEDT 2015
On Fri, 20 Feb 2015, Damien Miller wrote:
> Hi,
>
> OpenSSH 6.8 is almost ready for release, so we would appreciate testing
> on as many platforms and systems as possible. This release contains
> some substantial new features and a number of bugfixes.
...
> * ssh(1), sshd(8): Host key rotation support. Add a protocol
> extension for a server to inform a client of all its available
> host keys after authentication has completed. The client may
> record the keys in known_hosts, allowing it to upgrade to better
> host key algorithms and a server to gracefully rotate its keys.
>
> The client side of this is controlled by a UpdateHostkeys config
> option (default on).
Actually, the default is off. You can enable it using UpdateHostKeys=yes
or UpdateHostKeys=ask
-d
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