docs/100795: Typo in ssh_config(5)

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Tue Jul 25 15:30:22 UTC 2006


The following reply was made to PR docs/100795; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com>
To: Alan Amesbury <amesbury at umn.edu>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at freebsd.org, freebsd-doc at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: docs/100795: Typo in ssh_config(5)
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 09:25:07 -0600 (MDT)

 On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, Alan Amesbury wrote:
 
 >> Fix:
 > Apply this patch to ssh_config.5:
 >
 > *** ssh_config.5.orig   Mon Jul 24 20:50:13 2006
 > --- ssh_config.5        Mon Jul 24 20:50:20 2006
 > ***************
 > *** 461,467 ****
 >  be disclosed.
 >  The default is
 >  .Dq no .
 > ! Note that hashing of names and addresses will not be retrospectively applied
 >  to existing known hosts files, but these may be manually hashed using
 >  .Xr ssh-keygen 1 .
 >  .It Cm HostbasedAuthentication
 > --- 461,467 ----
 >  be disclosed.
 >  The default is
 >  .Dq no .
 > ! Note that hashing of names and addresses will not be retroactively applied
 >  to existing known hosts files, but these may be manually hashed using
 >  .Xr ssh-keygen 1 .
 >  .It Cm HostbasedAuthentication
 >
 > In that context, "retrospectively" makes less sense than "retroactively."
 
 Agreed, but that whole sentence is confusing.  How about this:
 
 ! Note that unhashed names and addresses already in known hosts files
    will not be hashed automatically, but these may be manually hashed
    using
    .Xr ssh-keygen 1 .
 
 -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA



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