On 24/03/15 22:53, Damien Miller wrote: > On Tue, 24 Mar 2015, Matthew Vernon wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I tripped over the effects of commit 660854 [0] when moving some >> infrastructure from Debian 7 to 8 (openssh 6.0 to 6.7); our ansible >> module used "return 0, but no output" for 'host not found in known_hosts >> file', and now complains that ssh-keygen is returning an error status. I >> don't think this change in API was announced in the release notes? >> >> i.e. ssh-keygen -F foo.invalid -f ~/.ssh/known_hosts used to return 0 >> (and no output), and now returns 1 (and no output). >> >> Is the non-zero return code really helpful here? > > Yes, it lets you tell whether the hostname is present in known_hosts. Iff nothing else has gone wrong - ssh-keygen -F can return 1 in other cases, as well. So you're still left with relying on an absence of output, aren't you? Regards, Matthew _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev
