Re: localhost patch for sftp module

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 19:44, Stefan Voelkel wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> attached a trivial patch to disable host key checking for localhost.
> 
> When using sftp to access tunneled hosts eihter -o HostKeyAlias=hostname
> or -o NoHostAuthenticationForLocalhost=yes must be passed to scp/ssh to
> avoid the Mitm attack warning.
> 
> I chose the second option because passing hostnames to the module would
> be inconvinient.
> 
> I contacted the author of gnome-vfs-sftp, but got no response, therefore
> my messege to this list.
> 
> Please let me know what you think of the patch.
> 
> regards
> 	Stefan
> 
> PS: Please CC: me as I am not on the list.

I commited this to the sftp version in the gnome-vfs 2.5.x version.
Thanks.

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