SSH – Domain of the Technomancer

Adding SSH Hashes to DNS

2021-12-302021-12-29 by Scott Garrett

To add an extra layer of security to your server, especially when you are working on a shared client, you can add SSHFP records to the DNS record of the host. This allows the ssh client to pull the hash of the server from DNS to add an extra layer of verification that the host … Read more

Finding an SSH Known Host That is Masked

2021-12-312021-12-29 by Scott Garrett

If you have the HashKnownHosts option for your ssh client set to yes, then you have a more secure known_hosts file so that a bad actor cannot easily get a list of the hosts you connect to, which is a good idea. However, it also hides it from you, so if you need to remove … Read more