[Bug 387091] Re: openssh-server should broadcast availability via avahi
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On 2008-12-11T14:11:37+00:00 Bastien wrote:
Avahi should set the TXT record for the SSH service it exports to
include the public key of the SSH server (in a manner compatible with
MacOS X, which does the same thing).
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On 2008-12-11T19:48:16+00:00 Lennart wrote:
Uh. This is not the appropriate place to report this.
To do this properly we should patch OpenSSH to do the Avahi registration
itself. But I fear the OpenSSH would not be willing to merge such a
patch. Right now we do mDNS/DNS-SD publishing of the SSH service by
dropping a static service definition file in /etc/avahi. It's just an
xml file. Including the SSH server key in that file automatically is not
really possible.
I am reassigning this now to ssh, let's see what the ssh maintainers
have to say about this.
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On 2008-12-11T20:09:58+00:00 Tomas wrote:
I don't know much about the potential avahi registration code, that
means what dependencies it would bring to openssh and so on.
But I am really afraid this code would not be accepted upstream
especially if some of the dependencies would be GPL licensed.
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On 2008-12-12T17:57:54+00:00 Lennart wrote:
It would pull in libavahi-client which is LGPL. la-c pulls in D-Bus.
Which is GPL & Academic.
Also, that dependency would be completely optional.
I'd expect a refusal however due to more fundamental issues. i.e. mDNS
/DNS-SD is this unreliable, untrusted protocol that is used to spam the
local network about the existance of a service. Security people tend to
stay away from technology like that and normally don't see the
usefulness of this.
Yes, i know, I am not selling this very well right now.... Let's hope I
am mistaken.
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On 2009-03-10T09:20:31+00:00 Fedora wrote:
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.
Reassigning to the new owner of this component.
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On 2009-03-10T10:17:40+00:00 Fedora wrote:
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.
Reassigning to the new owner of this component.
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On 2009-03-10T10:19:37+00:00 Fedora wrote:
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.
Reassigning to the new owner of this component.
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On 2009-06-09T10:14:24+00:00 Bug wrote:
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle.
Changing version to '11'.
More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
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On 2009-09-24T08:51:48+00:00 Jan wrote:
This bug already has been fixed by static avahi registration.
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On 2009-09-25T10:11:02+00:00 Bastien wrote:
Not sure what you mean by that, but key certainly isn't exported using openssh-5.2p1-28.fc12.x86_64:
$ avahi-browse -ar
= eth0 IPv4 cookie SSH Remote Terminal local
hostname = [cookie.local]
address = [192.168.1.140]
port = [22]
txt = []
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On 2009-10-18T12:39:05+00:00 Jan wrote:
It is exactly the same as MacOS exported.
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On 2010-04-27T12:30:44+00:00 Bug wrote:
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On 2010-06-07T08:29:42+00:00 Jan wrote:
This may or may not be a part of the avahi code, but it can't be done in
openssh. There are no means to provide it.
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On 2010-06-28T10:56:18+00:00 Bug wrote:
Fedora 11 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2010-06-25. Fedora 11 is
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.
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Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.
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** Changed in: openssh (Fedora)
Status: Unknown => Won't Fix
** Changed in: openssh (Fedora)
Importance: Unknown => Medium
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/387091
Title:
openssh-server should broadcast availability via avahi
Status in openssh package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Status in openssh package in Debian:
New
Status in openssh package in Fedora:
Won't Fix
Bug description:
Avahi has support to advertise to a network different running
services. Currently openssh doesn't advertise itself dynamically or
statically when installed.
It can be done statically by copying the example file from
/usr/share/doc/avahi-daemon/examples to /etc/avahi/services or by
using the avahi-publish command. avahi-publish could be ran from the
SSH init script, or this service file can be installed by the openssh-
server package.
This can be done dynamically by patching openssh, but there would have
to be a buy in from upstream to do this.
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