Package: openssh-client Version: 1:5.8p1-4 Severity: normal If I have hostbased authentication enabled and attempt to ssh to another system, hostbased authentication always fails and falls back to password authentication.
If I remove /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_key* and try again, everything works. I found this bug report from Feb 2011: http://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-bugs/2011-February/010105.html Apparently, this is fixed in 5.9 which debian does not appear to have yet. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.39 (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages openssh-client depends on: ii adduser 3.112+nmu2 add and remove users and groups ii debconf [debconf-2.0 1.5.39 Debian configuration management sy ii dpkg 1.16.0.3 Debian package management system ii libc6 2.13-4 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libedit2 2.11-20080614-2 BSD editline and history libraries ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.9.1+dfsg-1+b1 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k ii libselinux1 2.0.98-1+b1 SELinux runtime shared libraries ii libssl1.0.0 1.0.0d-2 SSL shared libraries ii passwd 1:4.1.4.2+svn3283-3 change and administer password and ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime Versions of packages openssh-client recommends: ii openssh-blacklist 0.4.1 list of default blacklisted OpenSS ii xauth 1:1.0.5-1 X authentication utility -- Configuration Files: /etc/ssh/ssh_config changed [not included] -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org