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Goldstein Lyor reassigned SSHD-753:
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Assignee: Goldstein Lyor
> SSHD cannot read its keyfile through a symlink
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> Key: SSHD-753
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SSHD-753
> Project: MINA SSHD
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 1.5.0
> Reporter: Anthony Wood
> Assignee: Goldstein Lyor
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> In {{AbstractGeneratorHostKeyProvider.loadFromFile()}} the configured
> {{keyPath}} is checked using {{LinkOption.NOFOLLOW_LINKS}}. If the path is a
> symlink, the key will be ignored. Perversely, this class then generates and
> writes out a new key (if overwriteAllowed) writing through the symlink and
> clobbering the original; on every startup it will ignore its own previous key
> and do it again.
> Note this is *not* about following or listing symlinks for, e.g., SFTP
> clients (SSHD-733).
> Since the key path is purely server-side configuration, SSHD should not
> interfere with deployment details such as whether its private key is behind a
> symlink.
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