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Hi guys, I'm working on a project which concern SSH and there is something i don't understand about server authentication. So I explain my problem: - When you authorize only RSA keys in the sshd_config on the server, you need to have the RSA public key of this server in the known_hosts file of the client. This is absolutely normal. - When you authorize only DSA keys in the sshd_config

...ed (on the server) Product: Portable OpenSSH Version: 5.2p1 Platform: All OS/Version: All Status: NEW Severity: trivial Priority: P2 Component: ssh AssignedTo: unassigned-bugs at mindrot.org ReportedBy: petfire85 at yahoo.fr When the SSH Server use both RSA and DSA, actually (by default) the OpenSSH client is obliged to know the RSA public key of the server. If we change the preference key to use in the ssh_config with the option HostKeyAlgorithms we can choose DSA as default key for the server Authentica...