Re: [Libguestfs] [v2v PATCH] input-xen: cover RHEL9 OpenSSL crypto settings

In commit af4a0454cdd2 ("input-xen: replace "enable LEGACY crypto" advice with targeted ssh options", 2022-07-11), we documented how the libssh / openssh crypto settings needed to be relaxed, for connecting to RHEL5 sshd. It turns out that in RHEL9, the non-LEGACY crypto policies disable SHA1 in signature algorithms even at the OpenSSL level. Explain how the user can re-enable that separately, for individual virt-v2v invocations. The method depends on Rich's libvirt commit 45912ac399ab ("rpc: Pass OPENSSL_CONF through to ssh invocations", 2022-07-25), which is is going to be released in upstream libvirt v8.6.0. Thanks: Dmitry Belyavskiy & Rich Jones Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2062360 Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek(a)redhat.com&gt; --- docs/virt-v2v-input-xen.pod | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/virt-v2v-input-xen.pod b/docs/virt-v2v-input-xen.pod index 789853b4d194..4a0544f8d16a 100644 --- a/docs/virt-v2v-input-xen.pod +++ b/docs/virt-v2v-input-xen.pod @@ -54,6 +54,26 @@ new one. Virt-v2v uses both C<libssh> and C<ssh> when converting a guest from Xen, and on some operating systems, C<libssh> and C<ssh> may not both accept the same option variant.) +When connecting to RHEL 5 sshd from RHEL 9, the SHA1 algorithm's use in +signatures has to be re-enabled at the OpenSSL level, in addition to the +above SSH configuration. Create a file called F<$HOME/openssl-sha1.cnf> +with the following contents: + + .include /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf + [openssl_init] + alg_section = evp_properties + [evp_properties] + rh-allow-sha1-signatures = yes + +and export the following variable into the environment of the +C<virt-v2v> process: + + OPENSSL_CONF=$HOME/openssl-sha1.cnf + +Note that the C<OPENSSL_CONF> environment variable will only take effect +if the libvirt client library used by virt-v2v is at least version +8.6.0. + =head2 Test libvirt connection to remote Xen host Use the L<virsh(1)> command to list the guests on the remote Xen host: -- 2.19.1.3.g30247aa5d201