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138 lines
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Dear users,
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This is OpenSSH version 5.1p1.
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There is a change in default settings of ssh client: accepting and sending of
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locale environment variables in protocol 2 is enabled.
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There is a very important change in sshd with SuSE Linux 9.1:
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The "gssapi" support has been replaced with the "gssapi-with-mic" to fix
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possible MITM attacks (to enable support for the deprecated 'gssapi'
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authentication set GSSAPIEnableMITMAttack to 'yes'). These two versions
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are not compatible. The option GSSAPICleanupCreds is obsoleted, use
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GSSAPICleanupCredentials instead.
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We disabled the new feature 'untrusted cookies' by default because it brings a
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lot of problems. If you like to enable it, set ForwardX11Trusted to 'no' in
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ssh_config.
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The option UsePrivilegeSeparation was reverted to 'yes' because the problematic
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calling of PAM modules in this mode was fixed.
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The option KeepAlive has been obsoleted, use TCPKeepAlive instead.
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There is an important change in sshd with SuSE Linux 9.0:
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The value of option ChallengeResponseAuthentication is reverted to default
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value yes, which is necessary for PAM authentication.
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I this OpenSSH version is removed kerberos support from protocol SSH1,
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since it has been replaced with GSSAPI, but keeps kerberos password
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authentication for protocols SSH1 and SSH2. To enable Kerberos authentication
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read README.kerberos file.
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Important change in sshd with SuSE Linux 8.1 is that sshd X11 forwarding listens
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on localhost by default. See sshd X11UseLocalhost option to revert to prior
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behaviour if your older X11 clients do not function with this configuration.
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The package openssh was splitted to openssh and the new package askpass.
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OpenSSH supports two protocol versions (SSH1 and SSH2) which need to be
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configured differently.
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Protocol version 1 is the old protocol and protocol version 2 is the new
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protocol that has several advantages from the security point of view.
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Please note that the default ssh protocol version has been changed to
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version 2 with SuSE Linux 8.0.
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The change of the default protocol version brings one important change for
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users who use identity keys for remote login with passphrases.
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(Please note the difference: 'password' means a system password on a
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given machine. The term 'passphrase', however, is usually used for the
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string that an ssh private key is protected (encrypted) with.)
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Protocol version 1 uses the key from file ~/.ssh/identity and compares
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it with keys from file ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on the remote machine.
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Protocol version 2 uses keys from files ~/.ssh/id_rsa or ~/.ssh/id_dsa
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and they are compared with keys from file ~/.ssh/authorized_keys.
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Note: Servers with OpenSSH < 2.9.9p1 use ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2 instead.
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If you don't want to switch to protocol version 2 now, add a line saying
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"Protocol 1,2" to /etc/ssh/ssh_config of the SuSE Linux 8.0 system to
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retain the old ssh behaviour.
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How to convert your environment to protocol version 2:
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1) Creating the necessary identity keys for protocol version 2:
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There are two ways:
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A) You can use your old keys for protocol 1, but you have to convert them
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to the format of protocol 2.
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This can be done with the tool ssh-keyconverter:
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Every user that will use protocol version 2 needs to do this:
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cd ~/.ssh
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ssh-keyconverter -k identity
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- at this point you will be asked for the passphrase of ~/.ssh/identity
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ssh-keyconverter -a authorized_keys
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If OpenSSH < 2.9.9p1 is used on the server:
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grep ssh- authorized_keys >>authorized_keys2
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To enable login to other users with the converted protocol version 2 keys,
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the other user has to add the new ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub to his authorized keys.
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You can do this by script by forcing version 1 with the -1 switch:
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for host in .... ; do
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ssh -1 user@$host 'cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys' < ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
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ssh -1 user@$host 'cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys2' < ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
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done
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B) You can generate new keys for protocol 2 by "ssh-keygen -t rsa" or
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"ssh-keygen -t dsa", then add id_rsa.pub (or id_dsa.pub) to
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authorized_keys2 and copy authorized_keys2 to the remote machine. See
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"man ssh" and "man ssh-keygen" for more info.
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2) Handling of protocol version 2 with ssh-agent and ssh-add:
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If you continue to use protocol version 1, there is nothing to do because
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the default identity is still ~/.ssh/identity.
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For protocol version 2, you have to pass the correct file (~/.ssh/id_rsa or
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~/.ssh/id_dsa) to ssh-add. To support the version 1 key and the version 2
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key you have to add both keys. Example:
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eval `ssh-agent -s`
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ssh-add ~/.ssh/identity ~/.ssh/id_rsa
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This will add your version 1 and version 2 keys and if they have the same
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passphrase, you only have to type it once.
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Other changes:
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The OpenSSH handling of ssh-add/ssh-askpass is solved different as
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with OpenSSH 2.x You don't need to call ssh-askpass any longer. If
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ssh-add is called and doesn't have a real TTY, it will launch
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/usr/lib/ssh/ssh-askpass itself. Make sure that the DISPLAY variable
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is always set correctly.
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If you want to use ssh-agent under X windows, just edit the file .xsession
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in your home directory and change usessh="no" to usessh="yes". After
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logining in you only need to start ssh-add by hand, click or startup script.
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If you want to use ssh-agent with startx, add the example above to your
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~/.xinitrc before the window manager is started.
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Your SuSE Team
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