[ale] SSH configuraiton

[James P. Kinney III]

The persistence is due to the remote host IP address changing. Classic
case: remote host using dynamic DNS listing gets new IP address from
ISP. Next ssh connection grips about authenticity as the host key is
good but it is keyed to the IP address.

On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 11:24, Jerry Z. Yu wrote:
> 	if you really really don't care about host authenticity, you can 
> set 'StrictHostKeyChecking' to 'no', so ssh can automatically add new 
> host keys to the user known hosts files.
> 	 $HOME/.ssh/known_hosts should be persistent. Not sure why/what 
> you are referring to on its impersistence?
> 
> 
> On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Jason Day wrote:
> 
> #On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 10:53:48AM -0500, cfowler wrote:
> #> I want to configure ssh_config so that the users do not get the
> #> following message.  I do not care about authenticity of hosts.  I jst
> #> want encryption.  The ~/.ssh/known_hosts file is not persistent across
> #> reboots so this message could become a little bit of a pain
> #
> #I don't think it can be done without a code change, since that would
> #defeat most of the point.  You might be able to work around it, though.
> #You say that ~/.ssh/known_hosts is not persistent, but could you make a
> #persistent known_hosts file?  If so, you could set the
> #StrictHostKeyChecking options to "yes" and the UserKnownHostsFile option
> #to a persistent known_hosts file, which you would have to maintain.  If
> #the server keys ever change, though, you will have to update the
> #known_hosts file, or your users won't be able to connect.
> #
> #Jason
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