class Net::SSH::HostKeyError

Base class for host key exceptions. When rescuing this exception, you can inspect the key fingerprint and, if you want to proceed anyway, simply call the remember_host! method on the exception, and then retry.

Public Instance Methods

[](key) click to toggle source

An accessor for getting at the data that was used to look up the host (see also fingerprint, host, port, ip, and key).

# File lib/net/ssh/errors.rb, line 55
def [](key)
  @data && @data[key]
end
fingerprint() click to toggle source

Returns the fingerprint of the key for the host, which either was not found or did not match.

# File lib/net/ssh/errors.rb, line 61
def fingerprint
  @data && @data[:fingerprint]
end
host() click to toggle source

Returns the host name for the remote host, as reported by the socket.

# File lib/net/ssh/errors.rb, line 66
def host
  @data && @data[:peer] && @data[:peer][:host]
end
ip() click to toggle source

Returns the IP address of the remote host, as reported by the socket.

# File lib/net/ssh/errors.rb, line 76
def ip
  @data && @data[:peer] && @data[:peer][:ip]
end
key() click to toggle source

Returns the key itself, as reported by the remote host.

# File lib/net/ssh/errors.rb, line 81
def key
  @data && @data[:key]
end
port() click to toggle source

Returns the port number for the remote host, as reported by the socket.

# File lib/net/ssh/errors.rb, line 71
def port
  @data && @data[:peer] && @data[:peer][:port]
end
remember_host!() click to toggle source

Tell Net::SSH to record this host and key in the known hosts file, so that subsequent connections will remember them.

# File lib/net/ssh/errors.rb, line 87
def remember_host!
  @callback.call
end