[17946] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux [8.3.30]: ssh install
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Wed Jun 28 00:03:21 2000
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 00:03:16 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200006280403.AAA18686@speaker-for-the-dead.mit.edu>
To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@mit.edu>
CC: bugs@mit.edu, jweiss@mit.edu
In-reply-to: "[17787] in Athena Bugs"
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
> I just installed cj. I did a layered install, because it has SCSI
> disks. When I added the ssh package, it generated a key for me. I
> believe it does this in the cluster install too. While this may be
> useful for layered machines, it is an actively bad idea for cluster
> machiens to even have an ssh key. The athena ssh package shouldn't
> create a host key pair, at least not if PUBLIC=true, and we should
> nuke existing keys from PUBLIC=true machines.
Fixed in 8.4 closing.
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Jonathon
