Re: Making host authentication more convenient

[Jeffrey Altman]

> I am not sure that this is apropos for this conversation, but another
> scenario that I run into is the fact that I run ssh on my
> gateway/router/firewall machine and also port forwarding ssh to intranet
> machines.  So depending on the port I use, I ssh into different  boxes
> behind the firewall.  SSH seems to give me a warning since it always appears
> that I am ssh'ing into the same machine but it has different public keys
> (different intranet machines) depending on the port.

In other words you are authenticating against the wrong machine and
SSH doesn't have a method to allow you to authenticate against the
correct one.


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