I've got a secure transmission system where I'm pushing host keys to a database and I'm trying to install keys generated on a Ubuntu 15 machines and install them them on a SLES 11 machine and I'm trying to install keys generated on a Centos 7 machine on that Ubuntu 15 machine.  So, is there a common mechanism for each of these machines to install host keys,  this is getting really confusing and I'm thinking I'm being a bit over scrupulous.  Everything is supposed to be automated and I'm figured out a decent method for collecting the keys, I just don't know where the right place to put them on the machine Here's a key on the centos machine:[root@centos ~]# cat /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_key.pubecdsa-sha2-nistp256 AAAAE2VjZHNhLXNoYTItbmlzdHAyNTYAAAAIbmlzdHAyNTYAAABBBIl8BT33T4sEAgG56CItPWep/N3IKaUaw8Xy6Fn6k9SLsARi9zZk9FAd6H6DfbIxzkz1sjSjfq1JSVyd3slKf4M=and here's what it looks like when I import it (via ssh manually accepting it) in my knownhosts on my ubuntu machineroot@ubuntu:/home# cat aaron/.ssh/known_hosts|1|F+Hr+T8eulEpFFFhwdJKdcOg6yQ=|yM/XLEkDPFUWO/g9vPOONBkRvtE= ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 AAAAE2VjZHNhLXNoYTItbmlzdHAyNTYAAAAIbmlzdHAyNTYAAABBBIl8BT33T4sEAgG56CItPWep/N3IKaUaw8Xy6Fn6k9SLsARi9zZk9FAd6H6DfbIxzkz1sjSjfq1JSVyd3slKf4M=So, it looks like the first part is in the known_hosts file is something encrypted and on the SLES machines, that part is not encrypted, so it's a bit simpler.So my questions are How do I come up with that encrypted part so I can echo it in to the known_hosts file?How do I know if a given linux system is expecting the first hunk to be encrypted?
How do I install known_host keys for ssh manually?
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