asked 2014-07-24 22:43:52 +0200
I noticed that SSH fingerprint changes unexpectedly in some moment during the phone is working. It seems that something scary happens to sshd as even when I remove fingerprint from my host's known_hosts I can't login to Jolla neither with password nor with public key. After reboot everything works flawlessly with the previous fingerprint.
Sailfish OS version is 1.0.8.19. Host's OpenSSH version is 6.4.
answered 2014-07-26 23:14:30 +0200
Thank you all for your help, guys! I changed settings of my DHCP server and tried to connect to Jolla for a couple of days. It works fine, so it was really a problem of my network configuration, sorry for disturbing.
If anyone interested in the real problem: I have DHCP server up on my ADSL router with network bridge on one of its LAN ports. The problem was that bridge network interface inside the router obtained the same IP as Jolla did. Ironically, the router seemed to have sshd running as well, so I actually connected to it instead of my Jolla phone, and it answered me as if fingerprint of Jolla was changed. I just reserved another IP specially for Jolla and now everything works just fine.
answered 2014-07-25 00:43:30 +0200
new IP, new fingerprint...
edit: no new fingerprint, see below
Asked: 2014-07-24 22:43:52 +0200
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Last updated: Jul 26 '14
Usually when that happens it's a sign that something weird is going on your network. I'm quite certain that the device you trying to login (the changed fingerprint) is not anymore Jolla.
tigeli ( 2014-07-24 22:49:23 +0200 )editThat has happened to me in the past (first days of playing around quite a lot with my Jolla), but I also think it had something to do with me messin' around too much with all my settings on the computer and IP-adresses in my homenetwork. I'm quite confident it isn't ssh-keys changing or something like that and I'm sure someone here can explain it.
darvari ( 2014-07-24 23:25:08 +0200 )editThanks for the advice, guys! Just changed my DHCP server settings to reserve an IP for Jolla, will see if the problem goes away.
aclex ( 2014-07-25 00:04:17 +0200 )editCan you verify whether the fingerprint REALLY changed or if the problem was caused by a changed IP address? See my comment below with this link. The warning is different depending on whether the fingerprint (and pub/priv keys) have changed or if the IP changed.
jzrz ( 2014-07-25 12:26:16 +0200 )edit@jzrz it really was that I knocked to another ssh server (my router) and from the client it looked like the fingerprint was changed. Indeed it was just a subtle problem in my network configuration.
aclex ( 2014-07-26 23:17:21 +0200 )edit