Re: An improved "hosts" completion handling

[John Eikenberry <jae@xxxxxxxx>]

Christopher Browne wrote:

> With the changes in openssh, of late, ~/.ssh/known_hosts is now
> littered with encoded host names that were getting pulled in such that
> I'd get tab completion looking like the following:
> 
> cbbrowne@dba2:~/Slony-I/slony1-HEAD-pristine> ssh rg  ssh
> rg570-da-logdbs
>  Wednesday 17:20:40
> rg570-da-logdbs
> rg570-da-logdbs1
> rg570-da-logdbs1.nj.site\ ssh-rsa\
> AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAIEAn7BPZtUqqjJzpVszaI71KUCVyvGicrOvUTFO4EiGzCHm7lYtJIbN0MblFo4CGwq3Z7cgzMwn/qdSxIXFnlIHIpPHojcZAnbSFXrJMIKB45VjK6XgFOB7ZQtpKg252F/nXV7vaTa/xgI6H+tza4w5UI5AZnrD/knq+l3qtSyuBDU=
> rg570-da-logdbs2
> rg570-da-logdbs2.nj.site\ ssh-rsa\
> AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAIEAn7BPZtUqqjJzpVszaI71KUCVyvGicrOvUTFO4EiGzCHm7lYtJIbN0MblFo4CGwq3Z7cgzMwn/qdSxIXFnlIHIpPHojcZAnbSFXrJMIKB45VjK6XgFOB7ZQtpKg252F/nXV7vaTa/xgI6H+tza4w5UI5AZnrD/knq+l3qtSyuBDU=
> 
> Bleah.  That's awful.

Another solution is to turn this hashing of the ssh hosts off. Just add
"HashKnownHosts no" to your .ssh/config file.

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John Eikenberry
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