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and subject line known_hosts bugs fixed in OpenSSH 6.8
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regarding Say NOT updated instead of updated
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Package: openssh-client
Version: 1:6.6p1-8
Severity: minor
File: /usr/bin/ssh-keygen
We observe that aside from the first run below,
the message "/home/jidanni/.ssh/known_hosts updated." is incorrect.
Using diff(1) we show that the contents remain the same.
Therefore in the latter cases, saying
"/home/jidanni/.ssh/known_hosts NOT updated."
would be better. Nor is there any reason to write a backup.
$ ssh-keygen -f "/home/jidanni/.ssh/known_hosts" -R m.jidanni.org
# Host m.jidanni.org found: line 2 type RSA
/home/jidanni/.ssh/known_hosts updated.
Original contents retained as /home/jidanni/.ssh/known_hosts.old
$ ssh-keygen -f "/home/jidanni/.ssh/known_hosts" -R m.jidanni.org
/home/jidanni/.ssh/known_hosts updated.
Original contents retained as /home/jidanni/.ssh/known_hosts.old
$ ssh-keygen -f "/home/jidanni/.ssh/known_hosts" -R m.jidanni.org
/home/jidanni/.ssh/known_hosts updated.
Original contents retained as /home/jidanni/.ssh/known_hosts.old
$ diff /home/jidanni/.ssh/known_hosts.old /home/jidanni/.ssh/known_hosts
$
Yes you might think it odd that a user would repeat the command by
accident perhaps, but even more odd are the incorrect messages.
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Source: openssh
Source-Version: 1:6.9p1-1
These bugs were fixed upstream by a refactoring of known_hosts
processing.
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Colin Watson [[email protected]]
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