Mac Store Core Tunnel StrictHostKeyCheck

[uther (George)]

I upgraded to Mac App Store Core Tunnel today. I imported my configuration from 1.1.2 and all my connections are correct. I set up sync with iCloud.

I previously had “StrictHostKeyChecking” enabled. After upgrading, my connections were failing as the host keys were apparently not retained. I changed the option to Ask and “UpdateHostKeys” to Ask.

Now when I connect, I am asked if I trust the host key, but it does not prompt me to save the host key. I can connect succesfully, but I always have to accept the host key as it is ‘unknown’.

[yang (Yang.Y)]

Please set Known Host option to System by following this topic:

Use system default `ssh_config` and `known_hosts` configuration

By default, Core Tunnel uses configuration files in its own container folder: # known_hosts ~/Library/Group Containers/E78WKS7W4U.io.coressh.ssh/.ssh/known_hosts # ssh_config ~/Library/Group Containers/E78WKS7W4U.io.coressh.ssh/.ssh/config This works very well in most of cases. But if you have a lengthy ~/.ssh/config or /etc/ssh/ssh_config, or have StrictHostKeyChecking set to yes and use ~/.ssh/known_hosts, /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts as the only source data trusted host keys, you may want to u…