On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 16:12 -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote: > On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Dimitrios Apostolou <jimis@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > The fact that fears me is that by hashing the known_hosts > > file information is lost, in particular the information that binds the > > IP address to the hostname. > > You are more than welcome to change the config settings. In all my > history with arch, we have always pointed fingers at the end user for > not paying attention to their config files, and I seriously have no > idea why this is a big deal now, a year after this change was made. > Sure it could have been more visible, but we have always held that the > config files are _your_ job. Hey No Problem. I have changed most of my config files a year ago, I just grab the opportunity to discuss that now that it's hot. My main point is that it should have been hot a year ago. I'm also struggling to figure out why I disliked this change that much back then. :-s Dimitris
