OpenSSH 2.9.9

[Lutz Jaenicke]

On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 11:05:19PM +0200, Markus Friedl wrote:
...
> OpenSSH 2.9.9 might have upgrade issues introduced by the long time
> between releases, which may affect people in unforseen ways:
> 
> 1) The files
> 	/etc/ssh_known_hosts2
> 	~/.ssh/known_hosts2
> 	~/.ssh/authorized_keys2
>    are now obsolete, you can use
> 	/etc/ssh_known_hosts
> 	~/.ssh/known_hosts
> 	~/.ssh/authorized_keys
>    For backward compatibility ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2 is still used for
>    authentication and hostkeys are still read from the known_hosts2.
>    However, old files are considered 'readonly'.  Future releases are
>    likely to not read these files.

Therefore I should do (symbolically):

cat /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts2 >/etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts

!?
	Lutz
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