RE: sshtools writes a different public key into known_hosts

The key in question here is the public key of the server that you connect
to. It is used to verify that the server that you connected to is really the
server that you meant to connect to, and not some "impersonator". As such,
this is not a key that you generate, but one that was generated when SSH was
first set up on the server. 

In a secure environment, you would obtain the public key of the server from
a trusted source ahead of time, and save it. You would never answer the
prompt with "Yes" or "Always" because that totally defeats the whole
procedure.

Tilman

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Soumya
Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 1:09 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Sshtools-users] sshtools writes a different public key into
known_hosts

Hi,
 
 When I connect to my secure server (for secure ftp) using the sshtools API
I get the prompt -

"Do you want to allow this host key? [Yes|No|Always]:"

When I enter 'Always', the known_hosts file is created as expected, but the
public key written in
to it looks much different from the one I have appended to authorized_keys
on my server. Why is
this ? The problem I have with this behaviour is that, in order to avoid the
prompt, I append the
public key (I generated with sshtools key-gen) to known_hosts myself and it
doesn't work.

could anyone give a clue regarding this ?

thanks in advance,
Soumya.

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