Re: ssh-hostkey enhancement

[Patrick Donnelly <batrick () batbytes com>]

On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Patrick Donnelly <batrick () batbytes com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 5:40 PM, Fyodor <fyodor () nmap org> wrote:
> > Hi George.  This is a neat feature but my initial thought is that if added
> > to trunk, it should probably be off by default.  Users who want it could
> > then set known-hosts.  Then again, if there are folks who would like to
> > have it on by default, now is a good time to speak up.
>
> I told George to write it this way. I can understand hesitation
> towards reading ~/.ssh/known_hosts. My opinion is that this is a
> harmless improvement. However, I'm okay with this being turned on by
> the user although I worry the script's enhanced functionality won't
> see use as a result.

Another option, possibly in addition to ~/.ssh/known_hosts, is to have
a persistent ~/.nmap/known_hosts (?) so the user can track changes in
ssh host keys. This has the benefit of not adding/reading the user's
known_hosts file while giving Nmap a place to put keys it finds for
future scans.

-- 
Patrick Donnelly
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