diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index b19b703ba76..de4dad09d02 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1524,6 +1524,9 @@ Release 2.7.3 - UNRELEASED
 
     HADOOP-12482. Race condition in JMX cache update. (Tony Wu via lei)
 
+    HADOOP-12565. Replace DSA with RSA for SSH key type in SingleCluster.md.
+    (Mingliang Liu via aajisaka)
+
 Release 2.7.2 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/site/markdown/SingleCluster.md.vm b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/site/markdown/SingleCluster.md.vm
index 2de8b2b0fc7..84789f69e05 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/site/markdown/SingleCluster.md.vm
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/site/markdown/SingleCluster.md.vm
@@ -138,8 +138,8 @@ Now check that you can ssh to the localhost without a passphrase:
 
 If you cannot ssh to localhost without a passphrase, execute the following commands:
 
-      $ ssh-keygen -t dsa -P '' -f ~/.ssh/id_dsa
-      $ cat ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
+      $ ssh-keygen -t rsa -P '' -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa
+      $ cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
       $ chmod 0600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
 
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