Ssh keys problem

Gordon Messmer yinyang at eburg.com
Tue Mar 21 19:57:57 UTC 2006


Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 March 2006 10:25, Andy Green wrote:
>> Put simply, borg was not in your clientside ~/.ssh/known_hosts.  When
>> you said yes, it was added.  There's nothing to troubleshoot about that,
>> from now on ssh connects to borg will be checked against the signature
>> stored now in your known_hosts, silently unless borg's signature changes
>> (because it is another machine trying to fake you out, or because you
>> reinstalled the OS on borg, etc).
>>
> It's strange, though, as I had used it before.

You probably rsynced the home directory from borg to david, and 
overwrote your known_hosts file with the one from the remote host.  If 
you'd done so, then naturally, the "borg" entry would no longer be 
present.  The file on "borg" wouldn't normally have its own host 
fingerprint.




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