Bug 2453 - Document authentication method "none" for AuthenticationMethods
Summary: Document authentication method "none" for AuthenticationMethods
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Portable OpenSSH
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Documentation (show other bugs)
Version: 7.1p1
Hardware: Other Linux
: P5 enhancement
Assignee: Damien Miller
URL:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks: V_7_6
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Reported: 2015-08-25 22:43 AEST by Jakub Jelen
Modified: 2021-04-23 15:10 AEST (History)
2 users (show)

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document available authenticationmethod names (730 bytes, patch)
2017-09-01 13:36 AEST, Damien Miller
dtucker: ok+
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Description Jakub Jelen 2015-08-25 22:43:32 AEST
To the set of related bugs (2398, 2397) for AuthenticationMethods option, there is one documentation issue.

I know that there is "none" authentication method, specified by RFC4252, but the usage in the above mentioned option can be misleading, since the "none" value can be used in other options as a safe default.

From my point of view, there should be short note about this value in the documentation, for example like this:

> The special meaning has method "none", that will always fail, unless the client is to be granted access without any authentication
Comment 1 Damien Miller 2015-09-04 14:21:26 AEST
Yeah, the documentation for AuthenticationMethods needs a bit more work - we should document all the available authentication methods and/or provide something like "ssh -Q" to list them (not sure whether it belongs in the client though...)
Comment 2 Damien Miller 2016-02-26 14:44:25 AEDT
Retarget to openssh-7.3
Comment 3 Damien Miller 2016-02-26 14:47:27 AEDT
Retarget to openssh-7.3
Comment 4 Damien Miller 2016-07-22 14:10:58 AEST
retarget unfinished bugs to next release
Comment 5 Damien Miller 2016-07-22 14:14:46 AEST
retarget unfinished bugs to next release
Comment 6 Damien Miller 2016-07-22 14:15:40 AEST
retarget unfinished bugs to next release
Comment 7 Damien Miller 2016-07-22 14:17:18 AEST
retarget unfinished bugs to next release
Comment 8 Damien Miller 2016-12-16 14:31:19 AEDT
OpenSSH 7.4 release is closing; punt the bugs to 7.5
Comment 9 Damien Miller 2017-06-30 13:43:16 AEST
Move incomplete bugs to openssh-7.6 target since 7.5 shipped a while back.

To calibrate expectations, there's little chance all of these are going to make 7.6.
Comment 10 Damien Miller 2017-06-30 13:44:32 AEST
remove 7.5 target
Comment 11 Damien Miller 2017-09-01 13:36:56 AEST
Created attachment 3045 [details]
document available authenticationmethod names
Comment 12 Damien Miller 2017-09-01 15:50:36 AEST
Patch applied; this will be in OpenSSH 7.6
Comment 13 Damien Miller 2021-04-23 15:10:41 AEST
closing resolved bugs as of 8.6p1 release
Comment 14 Damien Miller 2021-04-23 15:10:44 AEST
closing resolved bugs as of 8.6p1 release