** Description changed:

  Users are unable to connect to Ubuntu when using openssh client 7.8. We
  have seen this with both xenial and bionic, but this affects connecting
- to ANY host running openssh <7.8.
+ to ANY host running openssh server <7.8.
  
  The only known recourse at this time is either downgrade clients to 7.7
  or a previous version of openssh, or create new keys/certificates with a
  different alg that is acceptable for both the older server and newer
  client.
  
  The error message via ssh -vvv is:
  debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
  debug1: Offering public key: RSA SHA256:REDACTED
  debug1: send_pubkey_test: no mutual signature algorithm
  
  It appears that the change noted here in the release notes[1] for 7.8 is 
related:
-  * sshd(8): the semantics of PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes and the similar
-    HostbasedAcceptedKeyTypes options have changed. These now specify
-    signature algorithms that are accepted for their respective
-    authentication mechanism, where previously they specified accepted
-    key types. This distinction matters when using the RSA/SHA2
-    signature algorithms "rsa-sha2-256", "rsa-sha2-512" and their
-    certificate counterparts. Configurations that override these
-    options but omit these algorithm names may cause unexpected
-    authentication failures (no action is required for configurations
-    that accept the default for these options).
+  * sshd(8): the semantics of PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes and the similar
+    HostbasedAcceptedKeyTypes options have changed. These now specify
+    signature algorithms that are accepted for their respective
+    authentication mechanism, where previously they specified accepted
+    key types. This distinction matters when using the RSA/SHA2
+    signature algorithms "rsa-sha2-256", "rsa-sha2-512" and their
+    certificate counterparts. Configurations that override these
+    options but omit these algorithm names may cause unexpected
+    authentication failures (no action is required for configurations
+    that accept the default for these options).
  
  This is also affecting other Linux distributions as well:
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1623929
  https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/59838
  
- [1] https://www.openssh.com/releasenotes.html
+ [1] https://www.openssh.com/txt/release-7.8

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1790963

Title:
  Unable to connect with openssh 7.8 client

Status in openssh package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Users are unable to connect to Ubuntu when using openssh client 7.8.
  We have seen this with both xenial and bionic, but this affects
  connecting to ANY host running openssh server <7.8.

  The only known recourse at this time is either downgrade clients to
  7.7 or a previous version of openssh, or create new keys/certificates
  with a different alg that is acceptable for both the older server and
  newer client.

  The error message via ssh -vvv is:
  debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
  debug1: Offering public key: RSA SHA256:REDACTED
  debug1: send_pubkey_test: no mutual signature algorithm

  It appears that the change noted here in the release notes[1] for 7.8 is 
related:
   * sshd(8): the semantics of PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes and the similar
     HostbasedAcceptedKeyTypes options have changed. These now specify
     signature algorithms that are accepted for their respective
     authentication mechanism, where previously they specified accepted
     key types. This distinction matters when using the RSA/SHA2
     signature algorithms "rsa-sha2-256", "rsa-sha2-512" and their
     certificate counterparts. Configurations that override these
     options but omit these algorithm names may cause unexpected
     authentication failures (no action is required for configurations
     that accept the default for these options).

  This is also affecting other Linux distributions as well:
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1623929
  https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/59838

  [1] https://www.openssh.com/txt/release-7.8

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