Solved OpenSSH RSA Auth Now Deprecated?

[Mike Z]

Hello everyone,

I just performed an inplace upgrade of my FreeBSD server home server from 10.3 to 11.2. After the upgrade, I'm trying to start the OpenSSH service and I get about 4 "Deprecated option" messages all pertaining to RSA Authentication.

My Questions are as follows:

1. Was RSA Authentication removed from OpenSSH?
2. If yes, then why?
3. If yes to #1, could someone recommend a better alternative for public key authentication that is supported?

Thanks in advance for the assistance with this

 

[Mike Z]

Okay, so sorry to jump the gun with this posting.

I solved my own dilemma pretty quickly. To answer my questions, apparently the 4 lines that were giving me "Deprecated option" warnings were simply no longer needed. I commented them out and sshd started working like normal. It makes sense when you look at the rest of the config. Those options were redundant.