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authordjm@openbsd.org <djm@openbsd.org>2017-06-09 06:43:01 +0000
committerDamien Miller <djm@mindrot.org>2017-06-10 16:40:10 +1000
commit7f5637c4a67a49ef256cb4eedf14e8590ac30976 (patch)
tree4d88ad09fc901248be73bbc420f42f86831d3238 /ssh.1
parent2076e4adb986512ce8c415dd194fd4e52136c4b4 (diff)
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in description of public key authentication, mention that the server will send debug messages to the client for some error conditions after authentication has completed. bz#2709 ok dtucker Upstream-ID: 750127dbd58c5a2672c2d28bc35fe221fcc8d1dd
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1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/ssh.1 b/ssh.1
index 47cd0211d..3aacec415 100644
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@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@
33.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF 33.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
34.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 34.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
35.\" 35.\"
36.\" $OpenBSD: ssh.1,v 1.382 2017/05/30 18:58:37 bluhm Exp $ 36.\" $OpenBSD: ssh.1,v 1.383 2017/06/09 06:43:01 djm Exp $
37.Dd $Mdocdate: May 30 2017 $ 37.Dd $Mdocdate: June 9 2017 $
38.Dt SSH 1 38.Dt SSH 1
39.Os 39.Os
40.Sh NAME 40.Sh NAME
@@ -846,6 +846,17 @@ The client proves that it has access to the private key
846and the server checks that the corresponding public key 846and the server checks that the corresponding public key
847is authorized to accept the account. 847is authorized to accept the account.
848.Pp 848.Pp
849The server may inform the client of errors that prevented public key
850authentication from succeeding after authentication completes using a
851different method.
852These may be viewed by increasing the
853.Cm LogLevel
854to
855.Cm DEBUG
856or higher (e.g. by using the
857.Fl v
858flag).
859.Pp
849The user creates his/her key pair by running 860The user creates his/her key pair by running
850.Xr ssh-keygen 1 . 861.Xr ssh-keygen 1 .
851This stores the private key in 862This stores the private key in