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I had changed the SSH password on something so I had to dig through my known hosts file, and saw the word FUCK spelled out in there in all caps. I chuckled but am sure there's an explanation

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[–] cybersandwich@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I think you are obligated to share your entire known hosts file to prove this.

[–] SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] bungle_in_the_jungle@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Man this feels like deep lore at this point 😂

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Whaaaaat. I had no idea this had disappeared... sad news!

Thankfully it's archived at least: https://archive.is/BYZ9l

[–] Drusenija@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

The part where people share asterisks when they talk about their passwords? Just seems like good security honestly 😂 Glad Lemmy is keeping up with this pinnacle of security best practices.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 9 points 1 month ago

The ~/.ssh/known_hosts file only contains public keys. I mean, maybe someone doesn't want to hand out the list of hosts that they talk to, but exposing it doesn't expose the private keys, which are what you really need to keep secret.

Those are in ~/.ssh/id_rsa or the like, depending upon key type.