What is actually in known_hosts?

To add to the answer above and your comment, There are four building blocks for ssh session Encryption( symmetric keys derived after key exhange per session) Data integrity (MAC using eg SHA,HMAC ) Key exchange methods Public key methods or host key methods the SSH algorithm negotiation involves a key exchange state machine which begins … Read more

Putty: Getting Server refused our key Error

OK, there was a small typo in my key. Apparently when pasting to file the first letter was cut off and it started with sh-rsa instead of ssh-rsa. nrathathaus – your answer was very helpful, thanks a lot, this answer is credited to you 🙂 I did like you said and set this in sshd_conf: … Read more

Git: How to solve Permission denied (publickey) error when using Git?

If the user has not generated a ssh public/private key pair set before This info is working on theChaw but can be applied to all other git repositories which support SSH pubkey authentications. (See [gitolite][1], gitlab or github for example.) First start by setting up your own public/private key pair set. This can use either … Read more