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new e09b6a3 releasenotes: add workaround for adding KVM hosts with latest
openssh (#146)
e09b6a3 is described below
commit e09b6a3790cbc771298561166433a1ccced5432c
Author: Rohit Yadav <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Wed Sep 9 14:37:08 2020 +0530
releasenotes: add workaround for adding KVM hosts with latest openssh (#146)
Signed-off-by: Rohit Yadav <[email protected]>
---
source/releasenotes/about.rst | 14 ++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
diff --git a/source/releasenotes/about.rst b/source/releasenotes/about.rst
index 21a4671..56359a9 100644
--- a/source/releasenotes/about.rst
+++ b/source/releasenotes/about.rst
@@ -61,6 +61,20 @@ Libvirt Python Dependency on KVM and CentOS
For CentOS users using the security groups feature on KVM it is needed to
install the epel-release and python36-libvirt packages.
+Workaround for adding newer KVM hosts
+=====================================
+
+Newer GNU/Linux distributions with latest OpenSSH package disables some older
+SSH algorithms and ciphers and newer algorithms are not supported by
trilead-ssh
+library used by CloudStack to SSH into KVM hosts during the host-add operation.
+Until the dependency library can support that users can use the following
+workaround in their KVM host's /etc/ssh/sshd_config and restart ssh server
+before adding the KVM host in CloudStack:
+
+ PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes=+ssh-dss
+ HostKeyAlgorithms=+ssh-dss
+ KexAlgorithms=+diffie-hellman-group1-sha1
+
New User Interface & Depreciation notice of existing UI
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