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 ed8272f6d..ee9629102 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