Re: future default for UpdateHostKeys: ask or yes?

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On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 6:15 PM Damien Miller <djm@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, 20 Feb 2020, James Ralston wrote:
>
> > we’d like to set UpdateHostKeys _now_ to what the future default
> > will be, but it’s not clear from the announcement whether the
> > future default will be ask or yes.
>
> You're certainly welcome to do that, but you should be warned that
> there are some corner-case bugs that are known to exist relating to
> host certificates and @revoked keys. If you're not using either of
> those then I'd appreciate your running with UpdateHostKeys=yes and
> reporting your experience.

We aren’t using either of those, so we’ll play around with
UpdateHostKeys=yes and see if we encounter any strangeness.

Thanks for the clarification.
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