On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 5:10 AM, Shakthi Kannan <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> --- On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Yashpal Nagar <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> | y...@yash-desktop:~$ ssh-keygen -h
> | ssh-keygen: illegal option -- h
> \--
>
> Yes, there is no -h option, but, you will get the list of available
> options, and you should see an entry for "-R hostname Remove host from
> known_hosts file" in the output.
>
> The openssh version that you are using is available here:
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openssh/1:4.7p1-8ubuntu1.2
>
> The -R option is available in ssh-keygen.c file in usage(void) function.
>
>
By default known_hosts records the hostname/IP in hashed format. You can
turn it off by putting the follwing into .ssh/config

HashKnownHosts no

I was under impression that one must need to have hostname/IP in known_hosts
to use "ssh-keygen -R hostname/IP" , but I just tested it works! whether
your hostname/IP is there or not in known_hosts , you can user ssh-keygen -R
anyway...

Excellent, thanks for your help!


Regards
Yash
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