Package: x2goclient Version: 4.0.5.1 Severity: wishlist
Hello. x2goclient uses libssh but does not use a client configfile the way libssh can, ssh_options_parse_config() http://api.libssh.org/master/group__libssh__session.html#ga82371e723260 c7572ea061edecc2e9f1
~/.ssh/config or /etc/ssh_config are essential for clientconfiguration of the ssh connection over which x2go sessions run. Among other important configurations are Ciphers and KexAlgorithms specifications, with which a client can require only trusted crypto algorithms or else refuse connection. The current code simply negotiates whichever algorithm is the first match in the hardcoded libssh list to whatever the remote sshd specifies (eg. in its sshd_config file). The agreed algorithm is currently not exposed to the x2goclient user, but specifying it in the client config file would make it knowable by the user depending on it. There are many other configurations the config file could specify, to make x2goclient meet user requirements, even just "work the same as my other ssh sessions" where libssh supports those features.
The Session preferences dialog's Connection tab could expose afile open dialog to select a config file. That file open dialog could default to the user's .ssh directory, or else to the directory specified in the Session tab's "Use RSA/DSA key [...]" value if any.
-- Matthew.Rubenstein@Blue-Green-Group.com 718-233-5097