[Bug 112] Using host key fingerprint instead of "yes"

Jim Knoble jmknoble at pobox.com
Thu Feb 21 09:50:02 EST 2002


Circa 2002-Feb-21 09:19:03 +1100 dixit bugzilla-daemon at mindrot.org:

: http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112
: 
: ------- Additional Comments From maf at appgate.com  2002-02-21 09:18 -------
: One could print the foreign id with dots instead of colons.
: Then refuse that format on input. That way you can not just simply
: cut'n'paste it.

Yuck.  That would just make ssh appear stupid.  Much better to simply
not display the fingerprint, as Ben suggested.

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