On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, paultz wrote: > Thanks to all for setting me straight on ssh. As several people pointed > out, don't assign a passphrase to the host keys! I guess that falls > under the category of RTFMP! So I deleted all of my keys, and recreated > them with an empty passphrase. I still couldn't get to the z/OS boxes > from Linux, though, until I changed the Linux ssh_config to Protocol 1. > > Now everything is talking, and the only annoyance is this: > When I answer "Yes" to the question of "Are you sure you want to > continue connecting (yes/no)?", I get: > "Failed to add the host to the list of known hosts (//.ssh/known_hosts)." > > I am not sure if there is a way to change the specification of the > location of the known_hosts file, but the z/OS Unix Systems Services > manual says USS does not support this convention (//). As I said, > everyting else works, but it would just be nice to get these entries > into known_hosts so I didn't have to answer the prompt every time.
I don't know about "this convention," but "//.ssh/known_hosts" looks to me what you'd get if $HOME is unset. -- Cheers John. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb
