Re: hostbased auth between commercial and OpenSSH

From: Cylurian (fsromero@hotmail.com)
Date: 12/27/02 

From: fsromero@hotmail.com (Cylurian)
Date: 26 Dec 2002 23:28:22 -0800

Crap. You are right. I just bought the book today, and your name is
on it. Never realized it until now.

Great book.

slade@shore.net (Richard E. Silverman) wrote in message news:<5efcc0c5.0212240602.3fd34f51@posting.google.com>...
> Just to elaborate a bit...
>
> > > You realize that this is irrelevant to hostbased authentication...
> >
> > Obviously not if I thought it important enough to include it in my
> > response. Thanks for the tip.
>
> The tone of *your* response ("obviously") suggests you think my comment
> was somehow unnecessary or sarcastic. If you answered as many questions
> as I do on the topic, you would realize that this is *not* obvious; people
> often include irrelevant information and know it's irrelevant. By asking,
> I remove the need for yet another round-trip in the conversation.
>
> > > > and myclienthost's host key has been accepted as a known host.
> > >
> > > Why do you think you know this?
>
> Perhaps you think this is sarcastic. It isn't; it means exactly what it
> says: I want to know why you think this. By telling me your reasoning
> behind drawing this conclusion, I may be able to help you. Just saying
> "it has been accepted" does not give me enough information to help at all,
> since I have no idea if you're right or not. People often include
> their assumptions or misinterpretations as if they were facts, without
> support; this does not help.
>
> > > You do realize you need to convert the format of the host keys involved,
> > > since OpenSSH and SSH2 use different on-disk key formats?
>
> This is phrased as a question, with "You do realize...", since you didn't
> say anything about this issue in your post. Perhaps you do know about it,
> and dealt with the issue but didn't say anything about it -- or perhaps
> you don't know about it at all.
>
> Etc.
>
> - Richard Silverman
> slade@shore.net