Package: openssh-server Version: 1:6.0p1-4+deb7u3 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer,
We're upgrading some systems from Debian 6 to Debian 7 (and then maybe 8). As part of the update, the newer version of OpenSSH supports the newer ECDSA format. However, after the upgrade is complete, and I run 'dpkg-reconfigure openssh-server', the "/etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_key" is not generated. It seems that the package doesn't touch sshd_config(5) to add the new HostKey file. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but could you add functinality so that the user is prompted about updating "/etc/ssh/sshd_config"? If there have been no local changes then the new file can be installed, but if there are site-specific modifications then the admin can decide what to do. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.9 APT prefers oldstable APT policy: (500, 'oldstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages openssh-server depends on: ii adduser 3.113+nmu3 ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.49 ii dpkg 1.16.17 ii libc6 2.13-38+deb7u10 ii libcomerr2 1.42.5-1.1+deb7u1 ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.10.1+dfsg-5+deb7u7 ii libkrb5-3 1.10.1+dfsg-5+deb7u7 ii libpam-modules 1.1.3-7.1 ii libpam-runtime 1.1.3-7.1 ii libpam0g 1.1.3-7.1 ii libselinux1 2.1.9-5 ii libssl1.0.0 1.0.1e-2+deb7u20 ii libwrap0 7.6.q-24 ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian8+deb7u1 ii openssh-client 1:6.0p1-4+deb7u3 ii procps 1:3.3.3-3 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.7.dfsg-13 -- debconf information excluded