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From: Graham Murray <graham@×××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] openssh-5.4 upgrade warning for publickey users
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:41:04
Message-Id: 871vfovfek.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] openssh-5.4 upgrade warning for publickey users by Paul Hartman
1 Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> writes:
2
3 > Just a quick note for publickey-only sshd users that if you upgrade to
4 > openssh 5.4 the AuthorizedKeysFile entry in sshd_config may need to be
5 > updated or else you won't be able to login to your system.
6 >
7 > If you have:
8 > AuthorizedKeysFile .ssh/authorized_keys
9 > (which is the default example in the config file)
10 >
11 > change it to this:
12 > AuthorizedKeysFile %h/.ssh/authorized_keys
13 >
14 > and then restart sshd.
15
16 Whereas if you leave the 'AuthorizedKeyFile' line commented out, sshd
17 still works as expected and looks in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys