severity 574170 wishlist
retitle 574170 it might be be nice not to depend on openssh-client
thanks

On 03/16/2010 05:33 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> On 03/16/2010 05:05 PM, mike castleman wrote:
>> The traditional use of monkeysphere is to authenticate SSH connections;
>> however, with the introduction of the msva[1] into Debian, it can also
>> be used to authenticate HTTPS connections. So openssh-client should not
>> be required anymore. Perhaps it should be recommended or suggested.
> 
> openssh-client provides ssh-keygen, which monkeysphere and
> monkeysphere-host both use for fingerprinting keys.  (Other ssh
> components are used in the ssh-proxycommand and update-known_hosts
> subcommands, but those could reasonably fail with an informative error
> message if openssh-client were not installed).

Ah, okay. If monkeysphere actually does depend on openssh-client, then I
guess it's not a bug for it to say that it depends on openssh-client.

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