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What is the host key (the one from ssh connection) and how is it different from public-private key pair?
The situation is that I've had a VPS created previously. It was all set up, private-public key authentication, root login turned off, password login turned off. Everything was set up.
Then this server ...
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ECDSA host fingerprint changes if the host is already known
I'm using a web hosting service that offers both FTP and SSH access, but for SSH they only allow authentication via SSH keys. I've generated myself SSH keys using ssh-keygen, imported them into my ...
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ssh-keyscan does not read .ssh/config?
I am using ssh-keyscan in a shell script to accept keys for hosts. The hosts are identified by hostname but not in /etc/hosts. They are in ./ssh/config so I can ssh <hostname> but I can not ...
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SSH known_hosts with a dynamic IP
I have a machine behind a firewall. I connect to it remotely using a VPN tunneling with a port forward through ssh. To connect to the machine I use the external IP of the VPN and my personal and ...
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OpenSSH adds <IPv6>%2 to known_hosts
When I connect to a CentOS 7 host with IPv6 my ssh client always adds <IPv6 host addr>%2 to known_hosts even though the host key for this host (with the host's IPv6 address) is already present ...
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Warning: Remote host identification has changed (SSH)
Most likely someone did a server update last night, because when I try to do a rsync (from win 7) I get the message (short version):
WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED!
It is possible ...
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How to save ssh-keyscan result with the port to .ssh/known_hosts
When I run
ssh-keyscan -p NNN -t rsa GITHOST
it produces sting like
GITHOST ssh-rsa ...
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Is there a security risk to disclosing your SSH known_hosts file?
I'm speaking at a conference next week about some software tools I've created. My laptop will be shown on a projector screen during this presentation. The presentation will be videotaped and posted ...
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Add remote host to known_hosts file without prompt [duplicate]
I wrote some scripts and wish to add a remote host to my known_hosts file without any interaction. I can run a command like ssh -o "StrictHostKeyChecking no" [email protected] which will add the remote ...
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Auto accept rsa key fingerprint from command line
I've tried yes | ssh [email protected] to try to accept the RSA key fingerprint, but am still prompted if I'm sure I want to connect. Is there a way to make this automatic?
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SSH known_hosts holds duplicate keys for same server
I notice my local ~/.ssh/known_hosts file has two entries for the same machine on the local LAN:
somemachine,192.168.1.200 ssh-rsa KEY...
somemachine.search.domain ssh-rsa KEY...
It's the same key,...
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