Re: OpenSSH hostbased auth: known_hosts format

From: Philip Le Riche (gr75@bcs.org.uk)
Date: 02/28/02 

From: Philip Le Riche <gr75@bcs.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 14:25:55 +0000

Thanks Neil, and others. OpenSSH SSHD(8) is not clear on how you put a DSA
key in known_hosts. It worked when I put the hostname in as you said as a
fqdn.

- Philip

On 27 Feb 2002, Neil W Rickert wrote:

> Philip Le Riche <gr75@bcs.org.uk> writes:
>
> >I'm trying to get hostbased authentication to work using OpenSSH 3.0.2.1,
> >downloaded prebuilt for AIX (with oldlibc) from the Bull Freeware site.
> >I'm using protocol 2. It won't play ball.
>
> >I've appended /etc/openssh/ssh_host_dsa_key.pub on each machine to
> >/etc/ssh_known_hosts on the other.
>
> Should be fine. Each entry will be one line. Now just insert the
> appropriate hostname at the beginning of each line, separated from
> the word "ssh-dss" by a space. If the host has multiple names, use a
> comma-separated list of names. You can include IP addresses. There
> are no spaces within the comma-separated list of hostnames. There is
> a space immediately following that.
>
>
>
>

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