Bug#1095922: openssh-server: sshd -T still show a deprecated alias: without-password

Control: forwarded -1 https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3788

On Thu, Feb 13, 2025 at 09:03:46PM +0100, Patrice Duroux wrote:
> Currently, here is what sshd says on my system:
> 
> $ grep -i root /etc/ssh/sshd_config ; echo "---" ; sshd -V ; sshd -T | grep -i
> root
> #PermitRootLogin prohibit-password
> # the setting of "PermitRootLogin prohibit-password".
> #ChrootDirectory none
> ---
> OpenSSH_9.9p1 Debian-3, OpenSSL 3.4.1 11 Feb 2025
> permitrootlogin without-password
> chrootdirectory none
> 
> Regarding https://man.openbsd.org/sshd_config#PermitRootLogin, the default is:
> prohibit-password
> and not its deprecated alias:
> without-password
> 
> Could this be an oversight?

Thanks for the report.  I forwarded this upstream as
https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3788, including a patch.