Showing posts with label scp plink putty ssh. Show all posts
Showing posts with label scp plink putty ssh. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

ssh accept remote fingerprint via non-interactive command line

I keep running into having to press 'P' to add fingerprints permanently into the registry when using putty's pscp and plink.

But a lot of the time I don't have physical access to the machines that are running these scripts, however help is at hand.

All you have to do is:
  1. Accept the fingerprint to the server from your local machine
  2. Run RegEdit, and goto HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY\SshHostKeys
  3. Select the keys for the machines you wish to authorise and then click File / Export to save these to a .reg file.
  4. On the remote machine, run RegEdit /s myHostsToRegister.reg
Once this is done you should be able to ssh fine.

For Unix, apparently the putty keys are stored here: ~/.putty/sshhostkeys
See Also a python script to upload from a known_hosts file