openssh-5.4 upgrade warning for publickey users
 

Just a quick note for publickey-only sshd users that if you upgrade to
openssh 5.4 the AuthorizedKeysFile entry in sshd_config may need to be
updated or else you won't be able to login to your system.

If you have:
AuthorizedKeysFile .ssh/authorized_keys
(which is the default example in the config file)

change it to this:
AuthorizedKeysFile %h/.ssh/authorized_keys

and then restart sshd.

Thanks to Doktor Notor who posted the solution on bugzilla.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=308939

openssh-5.4 upgrade warning for publickey users
 

Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> writes:

> Just a quick note for publickey-only sshd users that if you upgrade to
> openssh 5.4 the AuthorizedKeysFile entry in sshd_config may need to be
> updated or else you won't be able to login to your system.
>
> If you have:
> AuthorizedKeysFile .ssh/authorized_keys
> (which is the default example in the config file)
>
> change it to this:
> AuthorizedKeysFile %h/.ssh/authorized_keys
>
> and then restart sshd.

Whereas if you leave the 'AuthorizedKeyFile' line commented out, sshd
still works as expected and looks in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

openssh-5.4 upgrade warning for publickey users
 

On Saturday 13 March 2010 01:09:48 Paul Hartman wrote:
> Just a quick note for publickey-only sshd users that if you
> upgrade to openssh 5.4 the AuthorizedKeysFile entry in
> sshd_config may need to be updated or else you won't be able to
> login to your system.
>
> If you have:
> AuthorizedKeysFile .ssh/authorized_keys
> (which is the default example in the config file)
>
> change it to this:
> AuthorizedKeysFile %h/.ssh/authorized_keys
>
> and then restart sshd.
>
> Thanks to Doktor Notor who posted the solution on bugzilla.
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=308939

Thanks for the heads-up - saved me a lot of grief :)

--
Peter
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