sshd boolean option parsing is excessively case-sensitive
Bug #1656557 reported by
nmarques
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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portable OpenSSH |
Unknown
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Unknown
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openssh (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Dear People,
The field 'PasswordAuthen
While this works:
PasswordAuthent
The following doesn't work for this field (though works for other fields):
PasswordAuthent
This is most likely an issue to bring up to upstream project. Could we have a fix so that configuration can be done in a consistent way and the daemon doesn't break because of capitalization of a given parameter (it works on the other fields using [Yy] or [Nn]).
This is a reality in 14.04 and 16.04.
Thanks for your time.
Changed in openssh (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
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This is true of all the purely yes/no flags; I agree that there are some multi-state options that behave differently.
I've raised this upstream, and linked the bug here. Thanks for your report. I should warn you in advance that a backport to 14.04/16.04 is rather unlikely, but if fixed upstream then it'll make its way into later Ubuntu releases.