[openssh_client 0005127]: ssh error messages

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https://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=5127 
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Reported By:                rrossi33
Assigned To:                yann
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Project:                    openssh_client
Issue ID:                   5127
Category:                   regular use
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   tweak
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     feedback
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Date Submitted:             2013-11-29 11:30 CET
Last Modified:              2013-11-29 13:15 CET
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Summary:                    ssh error messages
Description: 
Hi

When you make ssh to Host/Server ,and you have no host keys.
Then you get 

no such identity: /home/xxx/xxx/.ssh/id_rsa: No such file or directory
no such identity: /home/xxx/xxx/.ssh/id_dsa: No such file or directory
no such identity: /home/xxx/xxx/.ssh/id_ecdsa: No such file or directory
followed
by Password prompt.



ssh -vvv Output:

debug2: key: /home/xxx/xxx/.ssh/id_dsa (0), explicit
debug2: key: /home/xxx/xxx/.ssh/id_ecdsa (0), explicit
debug1: Authentications that can continue:
publickey,password,keyboard-interactive,hostbased
debug3: start over, passed a different list
publickey,password,keyboard-interactive,hostbased
debug3: preferred publickey,keyboard-interactive,password
debug3: authmethod_lookup publickey
debug3: remaining preferred: keyboard-interactive,password
debug3: authmethod_is_enabled publickey
debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug1: Trying private key: /home/xxx/xxx/.ssh/id_rsa
no such identity: /home/xxx/xxx.ssh/id_rsa: No such file or directory
debug1: Trying private key: /home/xxx/xxx/.ssh/id_dsa
no such identity: /home/xxx/xxx/.ssh/id_dsa: No such file or directory
debug1: Trying private key: /home/xxx/xxx/.ssh/id_ecdsa
no such identity: /home/xxx/xxx/.ssh/id_ecdsa: No such file or directory
debug2: we did not send a packet, disable method
debug3: authmethod_lookup keyboard-interactive
debug3: remaining preferred: password
debug3: authmethod_is_enabled keyboard-interactive
debug1: Next authentication method: keyboard-interactive
debug2: userauth_kbdint
debug2: we sent a keyboard-interactive packet, wait for reply
debug2: input_userauth_info_req
debug2: input_userauth_info_req: num_prompts 1
Password: 

Output older ssh -vvv

ebug2: key: /home/xxx/xxx/.ssh/id_dsa (0)
debug2: key: /home/xxx/xxx/.ssh/id_ecdsa (0)
debug1: Authentications that can continue:
publickey,password,keyboard-interactive,hostbased
debug3: start over, passed a different list
publickey,password,keyboard-interactive,hostbased
debug3: preferred publickey,keyboard-interactive,password
debug3: authmethod_lookup publickey
debug3: remaining preferred: keyboard-interactive,password
debug3: authmethod_is_enabled publickey
debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug1: Trying private key: /home/xxx/xxx/.ssh/id_rsa
debug3: no such identity: /home/xxx/xxx/.ssh/id_rsa
debug1: Trying private key: /home/xxx/xxx/.ssh/id_dsa
debug3: no such identity: /home/xxx/xxx/.ssh/id_dsa
debug1: Trying private key: /home/xxx/xxx/.ssh/id_ecdsa
debug3: no such identity: /home/xxx/xxx/.ssh/id_ecdsa
debug2: we did not send a packet, disable method
debug3: authmethod_lookup keyboard-interactive
debug3: remaining preferred: password
debug3: authmethod_is_enabled keyboard-interactive
debug1: Next authentication method: keyboard-interactive
debug2: userauth_kbdint
debug2: we sent a keyboard-interactive packet, wait for reply
debug2: input_userauth_info_req
debug2: input_userauth_info_req: num_prompts 1
Password: 

It seems that debug1 left in 
Trying private key:







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 (0010650) yann (manager) - 2013-11-29 13:15
 https://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=5127#c10650 
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I retrieved OpenSSH_6.2 and indeed I can observe the same behavior.

It has been introduced in OpenSSH 6.2 by this change:
   - dtucker at cvs.openbsd.org 2013/02/15 00:21:01
     [sshconnect2.c]
     Warn more loudly if an IdentityFile provided by the user cannot be
read.
     bz https://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=1981, ok djm@


and it has been fixed in OpenSSH 6.3 by this change:

   - dtucker at cvs.openbsd.org 2013/02/22 04:45:09
     [ssh.c readconf.c readconf.h]
     Don't complain if IdentityFiles specified in system-wide configs are
     missing.  ok djm, deraadt.


So you need to upgrade to the last Openssh package to fix this issue.
Is there a reason why you were still using Openssh 6.2 ?

Yann