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Old 09-11-2006, 02:36 PM   #16
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That's a great solution, Lotharster. But IMHO, since it probably is pretty common that you ssh into many machines sharing the same IP it gotta be possible to rewrite ssh to store fingerprints using an ip/port-combination as the unique identifier instead of just ip as it is now. Or are there any security-reasons against making ssh "nat-aware" that I am missing.

Again, thanks for your workaround.
 
Old 09-12-2006, 04:38 PM   #17
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Just mail the ssh developers and ask them about that. As far as I know, that should not be a security risk. But I'm no expert there.
 
Old 09-12-2006, 08:19 PM   #18
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Yeah I guess I could do that. But I am surprised that they haven't already done it, if there isn't a big reason why not to. But it won't hurt to ask. :)
 
Old 10-09-2006, 09:16 AM   #19
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There is another solution with the HostKeyAlias and CheckHostIP config keywords.

If you have in your ~/.ssh/config file the lines:
Code:
Host A
  HostName gateway.example.com
  Port 2201
  HostKeyAlias A
  CheckHostIP no
Host B
  HostName gateway.example.com
  Port 2202
  HostKeyAlias B
  CheckHostIP no
the host key fingerprint will be stored under the name specified with HostKeyAlias (A/B), so you can use ssh A and ssh B without conflicts.
 
Old 02-26-2008, 06:03 AM   #20
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Originally Posted by Ephracis View Post
Hi,

I have a network with several clients running sshd. I have different port pointing to each client to port 22. I was just wondering if there is any way to cope with the hazzle of rsa key fingerprint in this situation. Whenever I from the outside ssh to a different machine within the network I have to manually remove ~/.ssh/known_hosts before sshing to the client behind the firewall.

Any ideas?
Assuming ports 22221, 22222, etc., are redirected to several different hosts:

ssh-keyscan -t rsa -p 22221 host.foo.com >> ~/.ssh/known_hosts
ssh-keyscan -t rsa -p 22222 host.foo.com >> ~/.ssh/known_hosts
ssh-keyscan -t rsa -p 22223 host.foo.com >> ~/.ssh/known_hosts
etc.

I had this problem this morning and decided to solve it, I found this old discussion. It's never too late too give the right answer :-)
 
  


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