On Wednesday 26 September 2007, Herbert Laubner wrote:
> I want to connect to another machine in my local network using ssh. Somehow
> I do not get it managed to write the fingerprint to the .ssh/known_hosts
> because of missing rights.
>
> herbert@windose ~ $ ssh 192.168.0.50
> The authenticity of host '192.168.0.50 (192.168.0.50)' can't be
> established. RSA key fingerprint is
> c5:1f:98:93:f3:30:01:b1:95:3e:30:40:47:ef:97:35. Are you sure you want to
> continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
> Failed to add the host to the list of known hosts
> (/home/herbert/.ssh/known_hosts).
> Password:
> Last login: Wed Sep 26 20:37:42 2007 from 192.168.0.20
> Welcome to Darwin!
> rlbk-hmbg-de01:~ herbert$ exit
> logout
> Connection to 192.168.0.50 closed.
>
> herbert@windose ~ $ ls -al /home/herbert/.ssh/
> ls: Zugriff auf /home/herbert/.ssh/. nicht möglich: Keine Berechtigung
> ls: Zugriff auf /home/herbert/.ssh/known_hosts nicht möglich: Keine
> Berechtigung
> ls: Zugriff auf /home/herbert/.ssh/.. nicht möglich: Keine Berechtigung
> insgesamt 0
> d????????? ? ? ? ?             ? .
> d????????? ? ? ? ?             ? ..
> d????????? ? ? ? ?             ? known_hosts
>
> I think, it has to be a stupid mistake. I did
> windose ~ # chown herbert /home/herbert/.ssh
> windose ~ # chgrp users /home/herbert/.ssh
>
> but this did not help??

I cannot see what your access rights are (all I got was "?" as shown above).  
Add -r to chgrp to recursively change the files under it.  Finally, if the 
character "d" is correct for directory, then your known_hosts is not a file 
as it should be, but perhaps by mistake you created it as a directory and 
have not adapted your ssh_config, or ~/.ssh/config to reflect that.

HTH.
-- 
Regards,
Mick