Ssh keys problem

Anne Wilson cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk
Tue Mar 21 20:13:08 UTC 2006


On Tuesday 21 March 2006 19:57, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> 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.

I don't think that's what happened, Gordon.  I was sending files from david to 
borg, so it shouldn't have had any effect on the local file.

Anne
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