https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2533
Bug ID: 2533
Summary: do not check if HostKeyAgent is available on ssdh
startup
Product: Portable OpenSSH
Version: 7.1p1
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: P5
Component: sshd
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Currently with the HostKeyAgent option sshd checks on startup if it can
connect to the agent socket,
https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/blob/ebacd377769ac07d1bf3c75169644336056b7060/sshd.c#L1773
This introduces an artificial dependency between the agent process and
sshd and require the agent running when sshd starts. Moreover, as this
check do not verify if the the agent has the keys for the server, the
usability as a health check of such query is rather low.
It would be nice to either remove this check completely or at least
provide an option to disable it. This way the agent socket will be
queried only when receiving a new client connection completely
decoupling sshd from the agent process.
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