That message should appear if it's the first time that user@client has
tried to connect to that server. If you answer yes, do you connect? If you
try again, does it ask yet again?
--
Gregor Mosheh
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Systems Admin, Humboldt Internet
707.825.4638
On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, clifford thurber wrote:
> Hello,
> I am trying to enable host based authentication so that I may log into two
> particular machines without providing a password.
> I have installed Open SSH 2.1.1 and have generated host keys on two
> machines. I have added each hosts host_key.pub to my ~/.ssh/known_hosts
> files on each machine as well. The problem is that when I try to ssh from
> one of the machines mentioned above I get the following message:
>
> The authenticity of host 'balthazar' can't be established.
> RSA key fingerprint is 1c:5a:qd:45:24:e3:15:93:2e:a5:b7:f8:cd:1e:c8:90.
> Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)?
>
> I have verified that I didn't grab any newline characters in the
> host_key.pub files and both hosts have entries in the /etc/hosts files.
> Can you give me any feedback as to what the problem is of if this is not
> aberant behavior since I hust set this up ? Again thank
>
