On 07/25/22 15:09, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > It's no longer possible for libvirt to connect over the ssh transport > from RHEL 9 to RHEL 5. This is because SHA1 signatures have been > effectively banned in RHEL 9 at the openssl level. They are required > to check the RHEL 5 host key. Note this is a separate issue from > openssh requiring additional configuration in order to connect to > older servers. > > Connecting from a RHEL 9 client to RHEL 5 server: > > $ cat ~/.ssh/config > Host 192.168.0.91 > KexAlgorithms +diffie-hellman-group14-sha1 > MACs +hmac-sha1 > HostKeyAlgorithms +ssh-rsa > PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes +ssh-rsa > PubkeyAcceptedAlgorithms +ssh-rsa > > $ virsh -c 'qemu+ssh://root@192.168.0.91/system' list > error: failed to connect to the hypervisor > error: Cannot recv data: ssh_dispatch_run_fatal: Connection to 192.168.0.91 port 22: error in libcrypto: Connection reset by peer > > "error in libcrypto: Connection reset by peer" is the characteristic > error of openssl having been modified to disable SHA1 by default. > (You will not see this on non-RHEL-derived distros.) > > You could enable the legacy crypto policy which downgrades security on > the entire host, but a more fine-grained way to do this is to create > an alternate openssl configuration file that enables the "forbidden" > signatures. However this requires passing the OPENSSL_CONF > environment variable through to ssh to specify the alternate > configuration. Libvirt filters out this environment variable, but > this commit allows it through. With this commit: > > $ cat /var/tmp/openssl.cnf > .include /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf > [openssl_init] > alg_section = evp_properties > [evp_properties] > rh-allow-sha1-signatures = yes > > $ OPENSSL_CONF=/var/tmp/openssl.cnf ./run virsh -c 'qemu+ssh://root@192.168.0.91/system' list > root(a)192.168.0.91&#39;s password: > Id Name State > -------------------- > > Essentially my argument here is that OPENSSL_CONF is sufficiently > similar in nature to KRB5CCNAME, SSH* and XAUTHORITY that we should > permit it to be passed through. > > Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2062360 > Signed-off-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com&gt; > --- > src/rpc/virnetsocket.c | 1 + > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > > diff --git a/src/rpc/virnetsocket.c b/src/rpc/virnetsocket.c > index 32f506d2d4..8280bda007 100644 > --- a/src/rpc/virnetsocket.c > +++ b/src/rpc/virnetsocket.c > @@ -855,6 +855,7 @@ int virNetSocketNewConnectSSH(const char *nodename, > virCommandAddEnvPass(cmd, "KRB5CCNAME"); > virCommandAddEnvPass(cmd, "SSH_AUTH_SOCK"); > virCommandAddEnvPass(cmd, "SSH_ASKPASS"); > + virCommandAddEnvPass(cmd, "OPENSSL_CONF"); > virCommandAddEnvPass(cmd, "DISPLAY"); > virCommandAddEnvPass(cmd, "XAUTHORITY"); > virCommandClearCaps(cmd); > Acked-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek(a)redhat.com&gt;