[Cialug] ssh oddness

[Thomas Kula]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 03:24:26PM -0600, Daniel A. Ramaley wrote:
> In the past when i'd ssh to a new machine an entry would get written to 
> my ~/.ssh/known_hosts file of this basic form:
> 
> hostname.mydomain.edu,10.1.2.3 ssh-rsa AAAAB3N<random gobbledygook>==
> 
> But lately i get a much less useful entry that looks more like this:
> 
> |1|<random gobbledygook>= ssh-rsa AAAAB3N<random gobbledygook>==
> 
> and it is no longer possible to see which entry belongs to what machine. 
> Any idea what might have changed to cause this, and how to change it 
> back?

I'm betting your distro has changed to have the ssh_config
option HashKnownHosts on. Turning it off will prevent future
hashing of host names, although it won't unhash those already
hashed, of course.

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