Adjust user sftp examples to rely on known hosts file rather than insecure policy to auto add missing host keys#523
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Yes, good point. Added now. |
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…file rather than the insecure policy to auto add missing host keys. Update inline documentation to fit command line arguments.
…e insecure policy of auto adding missing host keys. A few fixes including a byte vs str issue to make it functional again on python3. Update inline usage help to fit comand line parsing and allow prompting for usernames.
…e insecure policy of auto adding missing host keys. A few other fixes to work under python3. Sync command line args with migsftp.py for consistency. Allow sharelinks of 10 chars in migsftp.py, too.
…ggested in review.
…migsftpX examples as suggested in review.
…efault and only the provided host key if one is explicitly given on command line.
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Nothing critical as it's client side examples for programmatic SFTP access with paramiko, but addresses some warnings from repo code scans.
One can simply run the corresponding
sftp FQDNcommand first to inject any missing host keys. Preferably with theVerifyHostKeyDNS yesoption set to grab the trusted public key from DNSSEC.