[PLUG] de-hashing entries in known_hosts file?
Brent Rieck
bsr at spek.org
Sat Apr 14 04:54:06 UTC 2007
Jason Martin wrote:
> On 4/13/07, Brent Rieck <bsr at spek.org> wrote:
>> Is it possible to reverse the hashing in the ~/.ssh/known_hosts file?
>
> The values in there are the public keys of the known hosts, not
> hashes. What are you trying to get out of it?
I had the HashKnownHosts option set to "yes", apparently it's an Ubuntu
default, so the host names are a hash according to the documentation. A
server I talk to has changed its host key so I'd like to update the
known hosts file but I can't tell what line it is in my known_hosts file.
--Brent
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