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authordjm@openbsd.org <djm@openbsd.org>2017-06-09 06:43:01 +0000
committerDamien Miller <djm@mindrot.org>2017-06-10 16:40:10 +1000
commit7f5637c4a67a49ef256cb4eedf14e8590ac30976 (patch)
tree4d88ad09fc901248be73bbc420f42f86831d3238 /ssh.1
parent2076e4adb986512ce8c415dd194fd4e52136c4b4 (diff)
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in description of public key authentication, mention that the server will send debug messages to the client for some error conditions after authentication has completed. bz#2709 ok dtucker Upstream-ID: 750127dbd58c5a2672c2d28bc35fe221fcc8d1dd
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1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/ssh.1 b/ssh.1
index 47cd0211..3aacec41 100644
--- a/ssh.1
+++ b/ssh.1
@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@
.\" (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: ssh.1,v 1.382 2017/05/30 18:58:37 bluhm Exp $
-.Dd $Mdocdate: May 30 2017 $
+.\" $OpenBSD: ssh.1,v 1.383 2017/06/09 06:43:01 djm Exp $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: June 9 2017 $
.Dt SSH 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -846,6 +846,17 @@ The client proves that it has access to the private key
and the server checks that the corresponding public key
is authorized to accept the account.
.Pp
+The server may inform the client of errors that prevented public key
+authentication from succeeding after authentication completes using a
+different method.
+These may be viewed by increasing the
+.Cm LogLevel
+to
+.Cm DEBUG
+or higher (e.g. by using the
+.Fl v
+flag).
+.Pp
The user creates his/her key pair by running
.Xr ssh-keygen 1 .
This stores the private key in