Re: [gentoo-user] warning (different signature type) when doing ssh

[Mick]

On Monday, 25 June 2018 22:40:48 BST allan gottlieb wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 25 2018, Mick wrote:
> > On Monday, 25 June 2018 10:19:07 BST Marc Joliet wrote:
> >> Am Montag, 25. Juni 2018, 03:10:57 CEST schrieb allan gottlieb:
> >> > I have two laptops call them A and B both running gentoo.
> >> > I recently did on each an emerge --sync after a long absence.
> >> >
> >> > The large emerge --update @world's finally finished on each machine.
> >> > One
> >> > new behavior is that
> >> >
> >> > If I use the console to log into A and then ssh to B, I get
> >> >
> >> > warning: agent returned different signature type ssh-rsa (expected
> >> > rsa-sha2-512)
> >> >
> >> > If I use the console to log into B and then ssh to A,
> >> > I get the same warning.
> >> >
> >> > I see no ill effects.
> >> >
> >> > Need I take any action?
> >> >
> >> > thanks in advance,
> >> > allan
> >>
> >> I saw the same, but it was temporary.  I use gpg-agent instead of
> >> ssh-agent, so I assumed it had to do with that, and then the warning
> >> disappeared after upgrading gnupg, but perhaps that was just a
> >> coincidence?
> >
> > This warning message is generated when you are using gpg-agent as
> > ssh-agent
> > and there is a mismatch on the ciphers between the two - i.e. when
> > gpg-agent can't/won't use the ciphers expected by sshd.
> >
> > Do you get the same warning when you exclude the agent from the equation?
> >
> >  ssh -a -i $HOME/.ssh/Your_SSH_Key user@host
>
> Yes, thanks.
> allan
>
> gottlieb@E7450 /local/allan/gottlieb $ ssh -a -i $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa E6430
> warning: agent returned different signature type ssh-rsa (expected
> rsa-sha2-512) You have new mail in folder /var/mail/gottlieb.

When you kill the agent on the local PC and try to connect, I assume you no 
longer receive the same warning?

-- 
Regards,
Mick