Re: known_hosts file format

[Aris Adamantiadis <aris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Norbert,

This is not a known issue. I personally never used comments in SSH
keys. My explanation to that part of code that doesn't accept 5 fields
has been written before OpenSSH published documentation around the
known_hosts key format.

However, most of the keys I see in my own known hosts file are from the
type
|1|hash ssh-rsa key
or
host ssh-rsa key

could you paste us a sample of pubkey that doesn't work ?

Thanks,

Aris

Le 02/02/11 13:00, Norbert Paschedag a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> I ran into problems with a number of hosts whose host keys libssh
> absolutely refused to recognize. It turned out that their known_hosts
> entry had an extra comment field, which, according to the openssh docs,
> is valid:
> 
>   "Each line in these files contains the following fields: hostnames,
>    bits, exponent, modulus, comment.  The fields are separated by spaces."
> 
> libssh, however, completely ignores such entries arguing that 5 fields are
> never valid  (keyfiles.c:1309 in 0.4.8).
> 
> Is this a known incompatibility (haven't seen any note on it) or am I just
> the first to notice this ?
> 
> Norbert
> 
>