I had changed the SSH password on something so I had to dig through my known hosts file, and saw the word removed spelled out in there in all caps. I chuckled but am sure there’s an explanation
I had changed the SSH password on something so I had to dig through my known hosts file, and saw the word removed spelled out in there in all caps. I chuckled but am sure there’s an explanation
I think you are obligated to share your entire known hosts file to prove this.
hunter2
Man this feels like deep lore at this point 😂
RIP bash.org
Whaaaaat. I had no idea this had disappeared… sad news!
Thankfully it’s archived at least: https://archive.is/BYZ9l
The part where people share asterisks when they talk about their passwords? Just seems like good security honestly 😂 Glad Lemmy is keeping up with this pinnacle of security best practices.
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The
~/.ssh/known_hostsfile only contains public keys. I mean, maybe someone doesn’t want to hand out the list of hosts that they talk to, but exposing it doesn’t expose the private keys, which are what you really need to keep secret.Those are in
~/.ssh/id_rsaor the like, depending upon key type.