Ian Campbell writes: > On Thu, 2018-03-01 at 13:40 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 11:23 PM, Alberto Luaces wrote: >> >> > Great! After passing those keys trough `ssh-keygen -lf`, I get the >> > confirmation I was looking for. >> >> Why do you need ssh-keygen when you can just add the ssh key to your >> known_hosts file? > > One way to add the key to the known_hosts is to say "yes" when ssh asks > you if the fingerprint matches and that command shows you the > fingerprint for you to match the one ssh prints against. Perhaps a bit > roundabout compared with just appending the key to the file, but not at > all unreasonable IMHO, and certainly better practice than saying yes > without checking.
That is the exact reason. Being used to run things like `ssh-copy-id`, I lost the habit of manually copying and pasting keys myself :-) -- Alberto
