[consfigurator] ssh:system-known-host property

[David Bremner]

Sean Whitton <spwhitton at spwhitton.name> writes:

> Hello,
>
> On Thu 23 Mar 2023 at 10:14AM -03, David Bremner wrote:
>
>> I have host definition that I cut down to (foo.bar a censored real host name)
>>
>> (defhost minkowski.local
>>     (:deploy ((:ssh :user "root") :sbcl))
>>   "workstation"
>>   (ssh:system-known-host foo.bar))
>>
>> When I deploy it with *consfigurator-debug-level* at 4, I get
>>
>> ;;     minkowski.local :: foo.bar is system known host to ssh client ... ok
>>
>> There is nothing indented before or after this, so it looks like some
>> fast path, but I'm not seeing any changes to /etc/ssh_known_hosts. Any
>> ideas how to debug this?
>
> The code that's running is a DEFPROP, %UPDATE-KNOWN-HOSTS in
> property/ssh.lisp.  The loop won't do anything if foo.bar doesn't have
> SSH keys defined, so first I'd confirm that
>
>     (ssh::get-host-public-keys foo.bar)
>
> returns something.

That was indeed the problem. It's a bit surprising to me that this is
not a failed-change of some kind, since the property really fails to
hold.

d