Hi all, On one of a servers I recently build with SLES 10 SP2, I didn't created any ssh private and public key pair -- id_rsa and id_rsa.pub for root user When i tried to ssh this server it gave me offending key warning on my local server (/home/yash/.ssh/known_hosts) because I had recently formatted the target host, So the finger print/key is changed which is normal.
But the problem is when i tried to locate the public key in /home/yash/.ssh/known_hosts I didn't find any key with a reference to my target host/IP alongwith. All I found is a file, with full of keys and its damn diffcult to find which I was looking for, Generally i look for target hostname/IP, if either of them is matched, I just remove it and it works. Is there any another way to find the matching key of the target host? Now I have created the key pair public and private but still same result- the file known_hosts still doesn't have any key with a host reference in it. what I want to understand is, if one doesn't create a pair of keys then how does the authentication takes place? If it is on the basis of server finger prints then how/where these finger prints picked up and presented to ssh client? Server is running openssh-4.2p1-18.36, with a ssh client OpenSSH_4.7p1 Debian-8ubuntu1.2, Regards Yash _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
