Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 13:41:41 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: obrien@NUXI.com, committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Security and other facilities at WC CDROM - the plan. Message-ID: <19980925134141.21721@follo.net> In-Reply-To: <19980925042403.A13429@nuxi.com>; from David O'Brien on Fri, Sep 25, 1998 at 04:24:03AM -0700 References: <199809232027.WAA19326@gratis.grondar.za> <19980924001230.B686@keltia.freenix.fr> <19980925042403.A13429@nuxi.com>
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On Fri, Sep 25, 1998 at 04:24:03AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > > As long as the host key doesn't change (it happened some time, generally > > after hardware upgrades :-)), this works pretty well. I still > > Why does that matter? (other than a PITA message and edit of > ~/.ssh/known_hosts) It has never affected me before. The above is the entire required steps. However, for those of us that are paranoid, we need to evaluate whether the change of host key is legitimate or not. This may mean getting in touch with the admins for that machine etc, which can be extrememly inconvenient. Eivind.
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