Debian Bug report logs - #764269
Say NOT updated instead of updated

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: Say NOT updated instead of updated

Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 02:34:34 +0800

Package: openssh-client
Version: 1:6.6p1-8
Severity: minor
File: /usr/bin/ssh-keygen

We observe that aside from the first run below,
the message "/home/jidanni/.ssh/known_hosts updated." is incorrect.
Using diff(1) we show that the contents remain the same.
Therefore in the latter cases, saying
"/home/jidanni/.ssh/known_hosts NOT updated."
would be better. Nor is there any reason to write a backup.

$ ssh-keygen -f "/home/jidanni/.ssh/known_hosts" -R m.jidanni.org
# Host m.jidanni.org found: line 2 type RSA
/home/jidanni/.ssh/known_hosts updated.
Original contents retained as /home/jidanni/.ssh/known_hosts.old
$ ssh-keygen -f "/home/jidanni/.ssh/known_hosts" -R m.jidanni.org
/home/jidanni/.ssh/known_hosts updated.
Original contents retained as /home/jidanni/.ssh/known_hosts.old
$ ssh-keygen -f "/home/jidanni/.ssh/known_hosts" -R m.jidanni.org
/home/jidanni/.ssh/known_hosts updated.
Original contents retained as /home/jidanni/.ssh/known_hosts.old
$ diff /home/jidanni/.ssh/known_hosts.old /home/jidanni/.ssh/known_hosts
$

Yes you might think it odd that a user would repeat the command by
accident perhaps, but even more odd are the incorrect messages.

Message #10 received at 764269@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>

To: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>, 764269@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#764269: Say NOT updated instead of updated

Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2014 19:47:33 +0100

On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 02:34:34AM +0800, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
> We observe that aside from the first run below,
> the message "/home/jidanni/.ssh/known_hosts updated." is incorrect.
> Using diff(1) we show that the contents remain the same.
> Therefore in the latter cases, saying
> "/home/jidanni/.ssh/known_hosts NOT updated."
> would be better. Nor is there any reason to write a backup.

Please file this upstream (https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/).

Thanks,

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]

Message #19 received at 764269-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>

To: 509055-done@bugs.debian.org, 764269-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: known_hosts bugs fixed in OpenSSH 6.8

Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2015 10:31:18 +0100

Source: openssh
Source-Version: 1:6.9p1-1

These bugs were fixed upstream by a refactoring of known_hosts
processing.

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]

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