[ale] ssh - no spoofing check

[Dow Hurst]

With a dual boot box it is very annoying. ;-)
Can you duplicate the keys across clients so that server is known by the 
same key on all clients?
Isn't there a perl script designed to help out with this that is 
available with SSH?
Dow


Bob Toxen wrote:

>On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 07:26:17PM -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
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>>I believe the man-in-middle message is derived from accessing a server
>>that has a different server key cached in ~/.ssh/known_hosts.  You
>>should be able access the same box by multiple names/IPs without getting
>>that notice.  I suspect that you are reusing a host name from one box on
>>anther box and that your known_hosts file still has an entry from old
>>host.
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>Yes, the warning about the MITM is if the known_hosts host key is different.
>However, SSH is too stupid to correlate with the IP rather than the one of
>many names used to derive the IP -- OR --- maybe they are trying to cope
>with dynamic IP, in which case their scheme does work.  If the latter, it
>was a poor design choice as it's rare that a server has a dynamic IP.
>
>I too find this annoying.
>
>Bob Toxen
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>>-Jim P.
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>>On Sat, 2004-10-23 at 16:44 -0400, David Corbin wrote:
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>>>If I ever reference a host on a ssh command by an alternate name, it "fails" 
>>>with a message warning about the possibility of a man in the middle attack.  
>>>Is there any way to tell ssh to not pester me about this, or to list several 
>>>hostnames for the same RSA key?
>>>
>>>david
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