On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 3:18 PM, prad<prad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:05:51 -0400 > Daenyth Blank <daenyth+arch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Additionally, you probably want to delete any hashed lines so they can >> be regenerated later. >> > that did it! > > i tried what aaron suggested last night actually and just now, but it > never occurred to be that the known_hosts file was already hashed and > therefore changing HashKnownHosts to 'no' wouldn't help until i deleted > the file and started over again. > > this is also much better because i can remove a specific host by name > rather than using ssh-keygen -R, which would remove one of the hashed > lines, but i'd have to go in manually to do the other. > > thx aaron and daenyth!! Another option is to add them to your ~/.ssh/config file as Host entries (with any additional settings), which also autocomplete without having to remove the "security" of host name hashing. -Dan
