connecting to a virtual host: host key mismatch

Damien Miller djm at mindrot.org
Thu Sep 11 23:23:20 EST 2003


On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 19:02, Ulrich Windl wrote:
>  
> > I'd probably just use the same keys for all the machines in the cluster. 
> > The keys are to prevent a MITM attack, and since all of the machines in
> > the cluster are presumably under the same administrative control, I don't
> > think separate keys buy you much.
> 
> 
> Also true. So I conclude that SSH will not complain if different hosts use 
> the same key.

It won't mind, but it will initially prompt you for each ip
address/hostname that you connect to.

-d





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