The fingerprint is a hash of the public key.
What is happening is that the system is deleting the server key pair
every time it gets reset to defaults. With no key, the system generates
a brand new key pair.
Unless you can have the network admin restore the old server key after
resets, you are going to have this issue.
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Amit Uttamchandani
<amit.uttam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There is a remote box (an embedded system running a proprietary ssh
> server) that I log in to for the first time and it generates a key for
> acceptance. That is all good. However, every time the network admin
> resets the remote box to default configuration the key changes and I
> have to manually edit the host file to remove the old key.
>
> Resetting to default config on the box simply just restores the settings
> to factory defaults.
>
> Is this expected behavior? What defines a fingerprint?
>
> Thanks,
> Amit
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