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Former Member
3 years ago

Difference to save the public key to config and known_hosts?

Hi, I'm running 1password on my Mac and I'm wondering that's the real difference to edit the .ssh/config or .ssh/known_hosts for adding the public key? For .ssh/config you describe it here in you...
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Jack_P_1P
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3 years ago

Hi @rstolpe:

Great question. Configuring which public key to use for authentication is done in .ssh/config, whereas known_hosts is used for your device to verify that you're indeed connecting the server you expect.

Jack