[Bug 2983] New: Add --fix-up-the-mess to fix up Offending key warnings for the user in one quick step!
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Sat Mar 16 22:39:50 AEDT 2019
https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2983
Bug ID: 2983
Summary: Add --fix-up-the-mess to fix up Offending key warnings
for the user in one quick step!
Product: Portable OpenSSH
Version: 7.9p1
Hardware: Other
OS: Linux
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: P5
Component: ssh
Assignee: unassigned-bugs at mindrot.org
Reporter: jidanni at jidanni.org
We are all familiar with the old routine,
$ ssh ...
Warning: the ECDSA host key for 'ssh.example.org' differs from the key
for the IP address '164.190.144.253'
Offending key for IP in /home/jidanni/.ssh/known_hosts:20
Matching host key in /home/jidanni/.ssh/known_hosts:30
$ ed /home/jidanni/.ssh/known_hosts
11098
20d
w
10656
q
$ ssh ...
Warning: Permanently added the ECDSA host key for IP address
'64.90.44.253' to the list of known hosts.
Well I have a new idea!
At the end of the initial warning just add
"... or if you are really sure, just use --fix-up-the-mess to fix up
the mess"
and then all the user would need to do is one
$ ssh --fix-up-the-mess ...
and voila, the mess is all fixed up! Even no one-time "Permanently
added..." message!
(Of course please choose a better name than --fix-up-the-mess.) Thanks!
https://github.com/libssh2/libssh2/issues/300 = former bug address.
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