From: Hassan Schroeder <hassan.schroeder@...>
Date: 2010-05-19T06:59:13+09:00
Subject: Re: (Net::SSH::HostKeyMismatch

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Kamal Ahmed <kamal2222ahmed@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I actually FOUND the solution:

You seem to have misspelled "DOS vector" :-)

>  Net::SSH.start( value_hosts, USER, :password => PASS ,  :paranoid =>
> false ) do|ssh |
>                        # The rescue block is used to ignore the change
> in key and still login using ssh
>                        begin
>                        rescue Net::SSH::HostKeyMismatch => e
>                          puts "remembering new key: #{e.fingerprint}"
>                          e.remember_host!
>                          retry
>                        end

And wouldn't it be amusing if a malicious compromised host just kept
on providing a different host key to each request ...

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