https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1285374
Bug ID: 1285374 Summary: F23 release notes don't mention that OpenSSH 7.0 disabled ssh-dss public keys by default Product: Fedora Documentation Version: devel Component: release-notes Assignee: relnotes@fedoraproject.org Reporter: mstahl@redhat.com QA Contact: docs-qa@lists.fedoraproject.org CC: relnotes@fedoraproject.org, wb8rcr@arrl.net, zach@oglesby.co Blocks: 151189 (fc-relnotes-traqr)
Fedora 22 to Fedora 23 upgrades OpenSSH from 6.9 to 7.1, but the release notes only mention 7.1 and don't mention the default configuration changes that happened in 7.0, such as the disabling of ssh-dss public keys that may prevent a login to/from upgraded systems without explicit command line parameters.
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/23/html/Release_Notes/sect-Relea...
Actual results:
it only links to 7.1 release notes.
"3.4.2. OpenSSH 7.1 The OpenSSH project continues to improve the security of network communication with the release of OpenSSH 7.1. See the upstream release notes for detailed information about this release."
Expected results:
there should be at least a link to the OpenSSH 7.0 release notes too; possibly explicitly mentioning the disabling of public keys.
http://www.openssh.com/txt/release-7.0
"Support for ssh-dss, ssh-dss-cert-* host and user keys is disabled by default at run-time. To temporarily enable existing host keys, use the command line option '-oHostKeyAlgorithms=ssh-dss' and to enable existing user keys, use '-oPubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes=ssh-dss'."
Referenced Bugs:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=151189 [Bug 151189] Fedora release notes tracker bug