Traceback complaining about gentoo USE flag when testing ssh connection to ssh_server on random port

[sysfu]

Command to start ssh server

$ honeypots --setup ssh --auto                                                                                                
[INFO] For updates, check https://github.com/qeeqbox/honeypots
[WARNING] Using system or well-known ports requires higher privileges (E.g. sudo -E)                                  
[INFO] Use [Enter] to exit or python3 -m honeypots --kill
[INFO] Parsing honeypot [normal]                                                                                                         
{"action": "process", "dest_ip": "0.0.0.0", "dest_port": "34877", "server": "ssh_server", "src_ip": "0.0.0.0", "src_port": "34877", "stat
us": "success", "timestamp": "2024-09-26T22:21:24.306890"}                                                                               
[INFO] servers ssh running...                                                                                                            
[INFO] Everything looks good!      

SSH command from test client

$ ssh -p 34877 -v [email protected]
OpenSSH_9.2p1 Debian-2+deb12u2, OpenSSL 3.0.11 19 Sep 2023
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 19: include /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/*.conf matched no files
debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 21: Applying options for *
debug1: Connecting to honeypot.host port 34877.
debug1: Connection established.
<snipped>
debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_9.2p1 Debian-2+deb12u2

Console output after connecting to honeypot from client:

{"action": "connection", "dest_ip": "0.0.0.0", "dest_port": "34877", "server": "ssh_server", "src_ip": "999.999.999.999", "src_port": "55094", "timestamp": "2024-09-26T22:21:38.737264"}
Exception ignored in thread started by: <function QSSHServer.server_main.<locals>.handle_connection at 0x7ca7d85cb060>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/honeypots/ssh_server.py", line 166, in handle_connection
    session.start_server(server=ssh_handle)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/paramiko/transport.py", line 804, in start_server
    raise Exception("Disabled by Gentoo for security reasons. Enable with 'server' USE flag")
Exception: Disabled by Gentoo for security reasons. Enable with 'server' USE flag
{"action": "connection", "dest_ip": "0.0.0.0", "dest_port": "34877", "server": "ssh_server", "src_ip": "999.999.999.999", "src_port": "55098", "timestamp": "2024-09-26T22:21:43.399479"}
Exception ignored in thread started by: <function QSSHServer.server_main.<locals>.handle_connection at 0x7ca7d85cb060>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/honeypots/ssh_server.py", line 166, in handle_connection
    session.start_server(server=ssh_handle)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/paramiko/transport.py", line 804, in start_server
    raise Exception("Disabled by Gentoo for security reasons. Enable with 'server' USE flag")
Exception: Disabled by Gentoo for security reasons. Enable with 'server' USE flag
{"action": "connection", "dest_ip": "0.0.0.0", "dest_port": "34877", "server": "ssh_server", "src_ip": "999.999.999.999", "src_port": "42550", "timestamp": "2024-09-26T22:21:59.166838"}
Exception ignored in thread started by: <function QSSHServer.server_main.<locals>.handle_connection at 0x7ca7d85cb060>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/honeypots/ssh_server.py", line 166, in handle_connection
    session.start_server(server=ssh_handle)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/paramiko/transport.py", line 804, in start_server
    raise Exception("Disabled by Gentoo for security reasons. Enable with 'server' USE flag")
Exception: Disabled by Gentoo for security reasons. Enable with 'server' USE flag

[giga-a]

@sysfu I'm going to remove paramiko and use twsited