So I did a little more investigating and tested ssh hostname and
ssh localhost
Also, it seems that the key is HostKeyAlgorithms in .ssh/config. Search
HostKeyAlgorithms in ssh_config
If I manually force it to only use ed25519, then the host key exchange happens
over ed25519, else it uses
Public bug reported:
6.6 was just released and fixes some regressions in 6.5. Given that
14.04 is not released yet, it would be great to get to the latest and
greatest version.
** Affects: openssh (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: openssh regression-proposed
Adding the requested output below. As you can see, the ssh server offers
up ECDSA host keys even though I've done the requisite ssh-keygen -t
ed25519 /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519
To be clear, the user key exchange *is* ed25519. I'm trying to figure
out why the server key exchange is not the same.
Just as an aside as I'm not sure what the right forum for this should be
but maybe Ubuntu can consider updating security packages as a separate
update policy for LTS releases.
What I mean by this is given our current security climate, I feel that
it's important to make sure people are using the
Public bug reported:
So I decided to test out the new ed25519 support on the new release of
OpenSSH. I generated the necessary keys, added the HostKey line in
sshd_config and restarted.
It does not appear to work and could be missing a compile flag
somewhere.
Long story short, I can generate
Public bug reported:
6.5p1 was just released and contains some very nice enhancements. Given
that 14.04 will be LTS, it would be nice to have this included instead
of just 6.4p1
** Affects: openssh (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: feature openssh ssh
Public bug reported:
upgraded from 13.10 to test 14.04 using do-release-upgrade -d
upon upgrade, it seems that the upgrade for open-vm-tools failed with
the following message.
Setting up open-vm-tools (2:9.4.0-1280544-5) ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
update-rc.d:
** Description changed:
upgraded from 13.10 to test 14.04 using do-release-upgrade -d
upon upgrade, it seems that the upgrade for open-vm-tools failed with
the following message.
Setting up open-vm-tools (2:9.4.0-1280544-5) ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger
** Description changed:
upgraded from 13.10 to test 14.04 using do-release-upgrade -d
upon upgrade, it seems that the upgrade for open-vm-tools failed with
the following message.
Setting up open-vm-tools (2:9.4.0-1280544-5) ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger
