Restore reading authorized_keys2 by default

Upstream seems to intend to gradually phase this out, so don't assume
that this will remain the default forever.  However, we were late in
adopting the upstream sshd_config changes, so it makes sense to extend
the grace period.

Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/852320
Forwarded: not-needed
Last-Update: 2017-03-05

Patch-Name: restore-authorized_keys2.patch

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/sshd_config b/sshd_config
index de9cc9fe2..31e14a4f0 100644
--- a/sshd_config
+++ b/sshd_config
@@ -36,9 +36,8 @@
 
 #PubkeyAuthentication yes
 
-# The default is to check both .ssh/authorized_keys and .ssh/authorized_keys2
-# but this is overridden so installations will only check .ssh/authorized_keys
-AuthorizedKeysFile      .ssh/authorized_keys
+# Expect .ssh/authorized_keys2 to be disregarded by default in future.
+#AuthorizedKeysFile     .ssh/authorized_keys .ssh/authorized_keys2
 
 #AuthorizedPrincipalsFile none