[tech] Host key on mussel

[Nick Bannon]

On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 10:42:02AM +0800, Warrick Mitchell wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 10:35:04AM +0800, Alastair Irvine wrote:
> > Has somebody changed the ssh host key on mussel?  When I tried to connect
> > from mermaid, this is what I got:
> > 
> >   @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
> >   @       WARNING: HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED!         @
> >   @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
> 
> Alaistair, yes it has changed, I think it may have to do with the fact someone did a upgrade on it recently, ie like over the weekend. Just edit your known hosts file and it will be sweet :)

Maybe I'm forgetful, but I don't remember it changing for _me_, or even
hearing about an upgrade.

mussel: /etc>ls -l ssh*						#11:08AM
total 6
-rw-r--r--   1 root     wheel        1177 Jul  6 22:38 ssh_config
-rw-------   1 root     wheel         527 May 20 04:36 ssh_host_key
					  ^^^^^^
-rw-r--r--   1 root     wheel         330 May 25 03:15 ssh_host_key.pub
-rw-------   1 root     wheel         512 Sep  2 10:10 ssh_random_seed
-rw-r--r--   1 root     wheel         690 Aug  9 19:54 sshd_config

If you last logged into mussel, without warnings, by ssh after May 20th,
perhaps you _should_ be worried. It's odd that the ssh_host_key and
ssh_host_key.pub don't match in date.

As a general rule - even during upgrades you can avoid breaking the host
key. I don't know whether this is strictly desirable or not.

Nick.

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