Re: Avoiding ssh host key lookups for your home subdomain?

2008-04-04 Thread Nigel Stewart
Scott, I had the same problem at the office with a multi-boot usb-connected drive that has various distros installed. Sometimes I boot linux on a laptop, but there are various other boxes that I also use it on, some with dynamically assigned addresses, others fixed. My solution was to clone the

Avoiding ssh host key lookups for your home subdomain?

2008-04-02 Thread Scott Garman
I recently posted this on my blog, but figured that if there was anyone I knew who could come up with a better solution, it would be someone on this list... Scott Secure shell (ssh) uses cryptographic keys to uniquely identify (fingerprint) the hosts that you connect to. Once you

Re: Avoiding ssh host key lookups for your home subdomain?

2008-04-02 Thread Cole Tuininga
On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 11:17 -0400, Scott Garman wrote: I recently posted this on my blog, but figured that if there was anyone I knew who could come up with a better solution, it would be someone on this list... Why not just give known devices a static IP out of the dhcp pool? -- A:

Re: Avoiding ssh host key lookups for your home subdomain?

2008-04-02 Thread Bruce Dawson
Scott Garman wrote: I recently posted this on my blog, but figured that if there was anyone I knew who could come up with a better solution, it would be someone on this list... Scott Secure shell (ssh) uses cryptographic keys to uniquely identify (fingerprint) the hosts that you

Re: Avoiding ssh host key lookups for your home subdomain?

2008-04-02 Thread Scott Garman
Bruce Dawson wrote: You can pre-load the host keys in /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts. (Don't forget to prefix each line with the hostname/IP address; yes - you can use wildcards - see sshd(8)). Thanks for the reply, Bruce. Unfortunately my problem is that I want to avoid the host key lookups

Re: Avoiding ssh host key lookups for your home subdomain?

2008-04-02 Thread Scott Garman
Cole Tuininga wrote: On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 11:17 -0400, Scott Garman wrote: I recently posted this on my blog, but figured that if there was anyone I knew who could come up with a better solution, it would be someone on this list... Why not just give known devices a static IP out of the

Re: Avoiding ssh host key lookups for your home subdomain?

2008-04-02 Thread Paul Lussier
Scott Garman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In resignation, I instead hacked up a different solution, and now tell ssh to use /dev/null instead of ~/.ssh/known_hosts as where to save host keys for my local subnet. If anyone knows a better solution to this, please enlighten me. Here is my final