Debian Bug report logs - #511120
openssh-client: VisualHostKey behaves inconsistend to normal fingerprint showing behaviour

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Philipp Schmidt <philipp@ppc.in-berlin.de>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: openssh-client: VisualHostKey behaves inconsistend to normal fingerprint showing behaviour When setting VisualHostKey to yes, the fingerprint is always displayed and not, like the manpage suggests, only when the fingerprint would be shown normally.

Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:53:23 +0100

Package: openssh-client
Version: 1:5.1p1-4
Severity: minor

This renders the VisualHostKey feature unuseable as a default when using
scripts relaying on ssh.

A more consistend way would be to let "VisualHostKey yes" show the
grapical fingerprint when the normal fingerprint woild be shown (e.g.
when the remote key is unknown) and rename the option for the current
behaviour to "VisualHostKey always".



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages openssh-client depends on:
ii  adduser               3.110              add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.24             Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                  1.14.23            Debian package management system
ii  libc6                 2.7-16             GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcomerr2            1.41.3-1           common error description library
ii  libedit2              2.11~20080614-1    BSD editline and history libraries
ii  libkrb53              1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-4 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libncurses5           5.7+20081213-1     shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libssl0.9.8           0.9.8g-14          SSL shared libraries
ii  passwd                1:4.1.1-6          change and administer password and
ii  zlib1g                1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12  compression library - runtime

Versions of packages openssh-client recommends:
ii  openssh-blacklist             0.4.1      list of default blacklisted OpenSS
ii  openssh-blacklist-extra       0.4.1      list of non-default blacklisted Op
ii  xauth                         1:1.0.3-2  X authentication utility

Versions of packages openssh-client suggests:
pn  keychain                      <none>     (no description available)
pn  libpam-ssh                    <none>     (no description available)
pn  ssh-askpass                   <none>     (no description available)

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Message #10 received at 511120@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Joachim Breitner <nomeata@debian.org>

To: 511120@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: openssh-client: VisualHostKey behaves inconsistend to normal fingerprint showing behaviour

Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:23:02 +0530

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Hi,

I also disabled that now because of visual host key appearing in backup
script logs and the like.

Alternatively, it might make sense to show VisualHostKeys only when
connected to a terminal, and not otherwise.

Greetings,
Joachim

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