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[solved] SSH hostkey authentication and users' known_hosts files



also sprach martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org> [2004.11.01.0810 +0100]:
> We are successfully using SSH hostkey-based authentication for our
> cluster. What I find really strange is that users still get to see
> messages like:
> 
>   Warning: Permanently added the RSA host key for IP address
>   '192.168.0.136' to the list of known hosts.

Thanks to weasel, this is solved. The trick is to prefix each
hostkey with a comma-separated list of all the names ever used to
access it, including its IP:

  node36.cluster.ailab.ch,node36,192.168.0.136 ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc[...]

Previously, I only had

  node36 ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc[...]

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