Comments on: Having fun with OpenSSH on Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex – visual host keys

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Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:48:19 +0000

[...] new “VisualHostKey” option (in Ubuntu Intrepid and Debian Lenny) is great fun. Normally it is disabled, but it seems that [...]

By: David Perfors

David Perfors — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 06:05:34 +0000

I didn’t know this feature, but I was more impressed about an other feature in the server package: ChrootDirectory, to put your users into there own directory so they can’t see other things on the filesystem. (jail or chroot )

By: Kees Cook

Kees Cook — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:18:39 +0000

Thanks for this post! I had no idea this feature was available, but I’ve been waiting for something like it for a while now. As for impacting scripts not expecting it, the “art” is actually sent on stderr, so a proper script shouldn’t be affected by it.