On Oct 3, 2011, at 7:39 AM, Evan Stachowiak wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm attempting to distribute a known host ssh key (for github) to an
> Ubuntu 10.04 host. Puppet is distributing the key into /etc/ssh/
> ssh_known_hosts as:
> 
> github.com ssh-rsa [really long ssh-rsa key]
> 
> However, Ubuntu seems to expect the key in this format:
> 
> |1|[really long ssh-rsa key]
> 
> (note all the keys in my known_hosts and ssh_known_hosts not managed
> by puppet are prepended with '|1|' on my Ubuntu boxes).
> 
> Am i missing something here? Or does Ubuntu just handle these files
> differently and I have to come up with a workaround?
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I think you are missing something and actually Ubuntu handles ssh - 
authorized_keys/known_hosts/public keys, etc. just the same as every other type 
of Linux/Macintosh/Windows OpenSSH implementation.

Start with the man page...

man authorized_keys

|1| is actually a hashed format.

Craig

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