LPI
102-400 · Question #108
What is a purpose of an SSH host key?
The correct answer is B. It provides the server's identity information to connecting SSH clients. See the full explanation below for the reasoning.
Question
What is a purpose of an SSH host key?
Options
- AIt must be sent by any SSH client in addition to a user key in order to identify the client's host.
- BIt provides the server's identity information to connecting SSH clients.
- CIt is the root key by which all user SSH keys must be signed.
- DIt authenticates any user that logs into a remote machine from the key's host.
- EIt is used by system services like cron, syslog or a backup job to automatically connect to remote
How the community answered
(33 responses)- A3% (1)
- B76% (25)
- C3% (1)
- D12% (4)
- E6% (2)
Community Discussion
No community discussion yet for this question.