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Better be Safe

As seen on a hoster’s website explaining how to use PuTTY on Windows to connect to their serial console:

Greyed out key fingerprint in PuTTY dialog

Greyed out key fingerprint in PuTTY dialog

I’m convinced greying out the server’s key fingerprint will make sure those pesky hackers won’t mess with the system…

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  1. Lutz Böhne | 2009-May-25 at 9:24 | Permalink

    What you forgot to mention is that the next paragraph tells the user to happily click “Yes” to establish the connection and enter their username and password ;)

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