Bug 101197

Summary: enabling HostbasedAuthentication breaks ssh
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Reporter: Christopher McCrory <chrismcc>
Component: opensshAssignee: Tomas Mraz <tmraz>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Description Christopher McCrory 2003-07-29 23:44:44 UTC 
Description of problem:

enabling HostbasedAuthentication breaks ssh

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
openssh-3.6.1p2-2.i386.rpm

How reproducible:
always if not using rsa/dsa keys

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install openssh
2. setup hostbasedauth OR
3. setup per user pub/private keys in ~/.ssh
    
Actual results:

[chrismcc@morticia chrismcc]$ slogin abu ls /usr/tmp/
ssh-keysign not enabled in /etc/ssh/ssh_config
ssh_msg_send: write


Expected results:

[chrismcc@morticia chrismcc]$ slogin abu ls /usr/tmp/
ifcfg-eth1
<snip>


Additional info:

same happens with ~/.ssh/id_dsa ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
and serverbased with:
/etc/ssh/shosts.equiv
/etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts


tested on both Intel and Opteron x86/x86_64 platforms
Comment 1 Christopher McCrory 2003-09-05 00:26:21 UTC 
The error message is misleading.
 
NOT work: ssh-keysign yes
    work: enablesshkeysign yes

maybe add a comented out line in the /etc/ssh/ssh_config file with the correct form.
Comment 2 Tomas Mraz 2005-02-04 15:25:51 UTC 
It's in the manual page - man ssh_config