Bug 2534 - option to get host key list from HostKeyAgent
Summary: option to get host key list from HostKeyAgent
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Portable OpenSSH
Classification: Unclassified
Component: sshd (show other bugs)
Version: 7.1p1
Hardware: All All
: P5 enhancement
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Reported: 2016-01-28 18:42 AEDT by Igor Bukanov
Modified: 2016-01-28 18:42 AEDT (History)
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Description Igor Bukanov 2016-01-28 18:42:12 AEDT
Currently, when sshd runs with HostKeyAgent, it still requires to list the server keys with HostKey options pointing to the public keys that agent provides. It would be nice to have an option to load this list from the agent when a client connects, not on startup.

This is very useful when sshd runs, for example, in a restricted container that do not have access to a file system holding the private keys. Thus to change the server keys I not only need to signal sshd to reload its config, but also to ensure that the public keys are transferred into the sshd container complicating the key management.