Can we have better ssh fingerprint collision messages?

[Tomas Mraz]

On Út, 2013-11-12 at 07:21 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 12:31:04PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote:
> > > It can't... but you have to be sure you have edited any entries that may apply and that it is absolutely correct on
> > > the change ... frankly it's quicker and simpler to test via changing the target host's key rather than your
> > > known_hosts
> > and that this is needed shows IMHO a bug because it should
> > in all cases give out the same warning message
> 
> Harald, I'm not seeing the behavior you see either -- if I replace a host
> key with another one in known_hosts, I get the correct man-in-the-middle
> message.
Exactly, I verified that too. But I actually first made a mistake by
deleting the 'ssh-rsa' and not copying it from the other host entry
which made the line invalid and the message was the same as for first
contact with the server. So I wonder if Harald did the same mistake.

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Tomas Mraz
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