Re: ssh

[Anand Kumria <wildfire@progsoc.uts.edu.au>]

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On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, Will Lowe wrote:

> Ok.  I'm trying to use ssh to connect between remote machines,  say from
> my machine to master.debian.org.  I've read the docs but I'm still
> confused:
> 
> 1) how do I enter a host into the "list of named hosts" that ssh is always
> talking about?  I've tried make-ssh-known-hosts but it always dumps with
> "no such file".

make-ssh-known-hosts is useful for making system-wide known_hosts files.
If you are using SSH for yourself, simply connecting to a remote site with
get you its public key.

> 2) How do I tell if my session is really encrypted or not?  Apparently if
> there's no secure connection it just uses .rhost ... that's not real
> great.




ssh -v should do the trick.

Anand.



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