Bug 55882 - Incorrect host key type
Summary: Incorrect host key type
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: openssh
Version: 7.2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Nalin Dahyabhai
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Reported: 2001-11-08 08:52 UTC by Neil Darlow
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:38 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-11-08 08:53:00 UTC
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Description Neil Darlow 2001-11-08 08:52:55 UTC
Description of Problem:
Protocol Version 2 adds new hosts to known_hosts2 using RSA key


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.9p2-9


How Reproducible:
Every time


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add a new host to known_hosts2 by SSH to unknown system
2. 
3. 

Actual Results:
The .ssh/known_hosts2 entry has a ssh-rsa encoded public key

Expected Results:
The .ssh/known_hosts2 entry should have a ssh-dss encoded public key

Additional Information:
Each end of connection running 2.9p2-9 on Red Hat 7.2
Server has an /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key and /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key.pub
Performing the same action against a FreeBSD 2.6 server gets a ssh-dss
public key in .ssh/known_hosts2

Comment 1 Nalin Dahyabhai 2002-03-07 17:12:04 UTC
OpenSSH versions 2.9 and up also support RSA keys for SSH2, so this is expected
behavior.


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