[lug] Curious About /etc/ssh/keys

[D. Stimits]

Hi,

I am curious about the generation of the keys for identifying a specific host under "/etc/ssh/...various keys...". There are all flavors of Linux distributions, and different package management systems. Does anyone happen to know if it is "traditional" (or at least common) to have the package generate new random keys for each machine, such that installing several systems won't leave all systems with the same key?

Basically it makes sense to have those keys randomly generated at the time of installing, and mostly I am thinking of Ubuntu and Fedora, but can anyone here think of any distributions where installing many machines would leave them all with the same key? Or does this seem to follow the logical idea of pseudo random key generation during system install?

Thanks!
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