J.Bakshi wrote: > Dear list, > > I have again come to you to discuss one more thing about ssh server in debian. > The ssh server is running as I have reported earlie rwith "Listenaddress" > option. But when I check the .ssh/known_host file I have become very > 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 > example one of the host appear as > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~` > 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 ? > > Thanks These are hashed hosts. Check out the HashKnownHosts directive in ssh_config(5). Andri