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authorDarren Tucker <dtucker@cvs.openbsd.org>2004-12-06 11:41:04 +0000
committerDarren Tucker <dtucker@cvs.openbsd.org>2004-12-06 11:41:04 +0000
commit3fbb045d089ed1e6d9a2fcffac0aac24ca84f009 (patch)
tree6f083944d7e00f7467c3b5a669299b5dbaf64771 /usr.bin/ssh/sshd.8
parent7ce9c17f546a39e1642eb072fa6a68b4cd59eda2 (diff)
Discard over-length authorized_keys entries rather than complaining when
they don't decode. bz #884, with & ok djm@
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/ssh/sshd.8')
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/ssh/sshd.86
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/ssh/sshd.8 b/usr.bin/ssh/sshd.8
index b2ec23741bd..34a84795591 100644
--- a/usr.bin/ssh/sshd.8
+++ b/usr.bin/ssh/sshd.8
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.\" $OpenBSD: sshd.8,v 1.202 2004/08/26 16:00:55 markus Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: sshd.8,v 1.203 2004/12/06 11:41:03 dtucker Exp $
.Dd September 25, 1999
.Dt SSHD 8
.Os
@@ -398,7 +398,9 @@ or
.Dq ssh-rsa .
.Pp
Note that lines in this file are usually several hundred bytes long
-(because of the size of the public key encoding).
+(because of the size of the public key encoding) up to a limit of
+8 kilobytes, which permits DSA keys up to 8 kilobits and RSA
+keys up to 16 kilobits.
You don't want to type them in; instead, copy the
.Pa identity.pub ,
.Pa id_dsa.pub