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Heads Up! - SSH fingerprint Visualization changed

Contributed by johan on from the c-u-c-me dept.

Alexander von Gernler (grunk@) told us about a recent change to SSH which he committed. This change switches SSH from using the keyword CheckHostIP to use the new config option VisualHostKey to enable fingerprint Visualization.

Read on for the commit message.

CVSROOT:	/cvs
Module name:	src
Changes by:	grunk@cvs.openbsd.org	2008/06/26 05:46:32

Modified files:
	usr.bin/ssh    : readconf.c readconf.h ssh.1 ssh_config.5 
	                 sshconnect.c 

Log message:
Move SSH Fingerprint Visualization away from sharing the config option
CheckHostIP to an own config option named VisualHostKey.
While there, fix the behaviour that ssh would draw a random art picture
on every newly seen host even when the option was not enabled.

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  1. By Anonymous Coward (139.82.2.197) on

    yay, a commit

    Comments

    1. By Anonymous Coward (70.173.232.231) on

      > yay, a commit

      people are actually modding this up?

      Comments

      1. By Anonymous Coward (219.90.220.138) on

        It would be easy to write a comment and then mod it up with many different IPs, if one were so inclined.

      2. By Cabal (Cabal) on http://www.romraider.com/

        > > yay, a commit
        >
        > people are actually modding this up?

        Maybe people don't think every OpenBSD commit requires a story? I'm pretty sure most OpenBSD users are advanced enough to consult man pages when choosing configuration options.

        Comments

        1. By Anonymous Coward (114.30.103.22) on

          I don't know... I see some pretty RTFM worthy questions on misc@.

        2. By Anonymous Coward (88.88.78.220) on

          > Maybe people don't think every OpenBSD commit requires a story? I'm
          > pretty sure most OpenBSD users are advanced enough to consult man
          > pages when choosing configuration options.

          Yeah, I always reread every man page for every command I run. You know, in case something changed since the last time I read it.

      3. By Anonymous Coward (64.253.108.203) on

        > > yay, a commit
        >
        > people are actually modding this up?

        I modded it up because it's funny

        I would like to encourage more funny

        I would say that about -13/41 undeadly readers need to lighten up

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