On Sat, 20 Sep 2008, J.Bakshi wrote: >surprised. In suse the file listed the hosts with IP address; but here in >debian the file listed the hosts in some encrypted form I think. For an see HashKnownHosts >1|IJgX5SzPVBU+0HMca+9NUwJ7dbs=|L7VrUguJZVpsie0l8gFmWb0D7dw= ssh-rsa >AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAIEA4oeNBdcZX/5/ir3GJo/466qO5gfacLX632YiucgBX2Z4XcT9FhofPGVF1BTXTp7iS9pwnEeabmilSBsNeUN8BniEbDVi4LpSjggSJP08dBZSm3kqmKT6GVlfRshUc+DaXfCJyp3VhNdV0Z3WiMDeUdfMt71r0drNFZ+s+rFZviM= > >Could any one suggest how can I change this to have IP based known_host file ? you can't, that's the idea of this feature. J. -- Jan Pechanec