On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 03:43:13PM +0300, Yossi Kreinin wrote: > 1. Ever seen those messages by ssh where it complains about its > inability to establish the authenticity of a host? Well, it recently > complained to me about localhost. Up until then, I thought you couldn't > get more authentic than that. I wonder whether it doubted the locality > of localhost or its hospitality, but it didn't say.
I fail to see how this could possibly be useful. I suppose the argument is that it helps when you're sshing to localhost:1234 where port 1234 is forwarded to an ssh daemon elsewhere. And obviously you need to know that you're not *really* going to localhost. But, of course, this breaks ALL THE FUCKING TIME because if you're the sort of person to use ssh tunnelling at all, you probably use it for more than just one host, and so you're going to have two or more different keys for localhost *and expect them to be different because they're different hosts*. > 3. And for a dessert: suppose you use a background color #44ffaa, ... > [ and 44ffaa doesn't equal 44ffaa ] > > Guess the brand name of that browser, given the hint that the number of > its version that I tested is 8. Opera? [runs away] -- David Cantrell | Nth greatest programmer in the world It wouldn't hurt to think like a serial killer every so often. Purely for purposes of prevention, of course.
