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the convenience of the user.

.Pp

.It ~/.ssh/known_hosts

Records host keys for all hosts the user has logged into that are not

Contains a list of host keys for all hosts the user has logged into

that are not already in the systemwide list of known host keys.

.Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts .

See

.Xr sshd 8 .

.Xr sshd 8

for further details of the format of this file.

.Pp

.It ~/.ssh/rc

Commands in this file are executed by

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This file should be prepared by the

system administrator to contain the public host keys of all machines in the

organization.

This file should be world-readable.

It should be world-readable.

This file contains

See

public keys, one per line, in the following format (fields separated

by spaces): system name, public key and optional comment field.

When different names are used

for the same machine, all such names should be listed, separated by

commas.

The format is described in the

.Xr sshd 8

manual page.

for further details of the format of this file.

.Pp

The canonical system name (as returned by name servers) is used by

.Xr sshd 8

to verify the client host when logging in; other names are needed because

.Nm

does not convert the user-supplied name to a canonical name before

checking the key, because someone with access to the name servers

would then be able to fool host authentication.

.Pp

.It /etc/ssh/sshrc

Commands in this file are executed by