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KnownHosts
Known SSH Hosts Management

Validate host

This function checks whether a host's public key exists in the cPanel account's /home/user/.ssh/known_hosts file.

get/KnownHosts/verify

Query parameters

string ipv4 required
OR
string domain required

The host to query.

portinteger
Example:1234

The SSH port to use.

Response

HTTP Request was successful.

apiversioninteger

The version of the API.

funcstring

The name of the method called.

modulestring

The name of the module called.

Example response

{
  "apiversion": 3,
  "func": "verify",
  "module": "KnownHosts",
  "result": {
    "data": {
      "errors": [
        "The example.com host does not exist in the known_hosts file."
      ],
      "failure_type": "new",
      "host": [
        {
          "key": "ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAQEAq2A7hRGmdnm9tUDbO9IDSwBK6TbQa+PXYPCPy6rbTrTtw7PHkccKrpp0yVhp5HdEIcKr6pLlVDBfOLX9QUsyCOV0wzfjIJNlGEYsdlLJizHhbn2mUjvSAHQqZETYP81eFzLQNnPHt4EVVUh7VfDESU84KezmD5QlWpXLmvU31/yMf+Se8xhHTvKSCZIFImWwoG6mbUoWf9nzpIoaSjB+weqqUUmpaaasXVal72J+UX2B+2RPW3RcT0eOzQgqlJL3RKrTJvdsjE3JEAvGq3lGHSZXy28G3skua2SmVi/w4yCE6gbODqnTWlg7+wC604ydGXA8VJiS5ap43JXiUFFAaQ==",
          "line": "host.example.com ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAQEAq2A7hRGmdnm9tUDbO9IDSwBK6TbQa+PXYPCPy6rbTrTtw7PHkccKrpp0yVhp5HdEIcKr6pLlVDBfOLX9QUsyCOV0wzfjIJNlGEYsdlLJizHhbn2mUjvSAHQqZETYP81eFzLQNnPHt4EVVUh7VfDESU84KezmD5QlWpXLmvU31/yMf+Se8xhHTvKSCZIFImWwoG6mbUoWf9nzpIoaSjB+weqqUUmpaaasXVal72J+UX2B+2RPW3RcT0eOzQgqlJL3RKrTJvdsjE3JEAvGq3lGHSZXy28G3skua2SmVi/w4yCE6gbODqnTWlg7+wC604ydGXA8VJiS5ap43JXiUFFAaQ==",
          "meta": {
            "algorithm": "ssh-rsa",
            "body": "AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAQEAq2A7hRGmdnm9tUDbO9IDSwBK6TbQa+PXYPCPy6rbTrTtw7PHkccKrpp0yVhp5HdEIcKr6pLlVDBfOLX9QUsyCOV0wzfjIJNlGEYsdlLJizHhbn2mUjvSAHQqZETYP81eFzLQNnPHt4EVVUh7VfDESU84KezmD5QlWpXLmvU31/yMf+Se8xhHTvKSCZIFImWwoG6mbUoWf9nzpIoaSjB+weqqUUmpaaasXVal72J+UX2B+2RPW3RcT0eOzQgqlJL3RKrTJvdsjE3JEAvGq3lGHSZXy28G3skua2SmVi/w4yCE6gbODqnTWlg7+wC604ydGXA8VJiS5ap43JXiUFFAaQ==",
            "md5": "b6030e39979ed0e724cea3773e014209",
            "md5-printable": "MD5:b6:03:0e:39:97:9e:d0:e7:24:ce:a3:77:3e:01:42:09",
            "sha256": "44e405bcf4e11ab5b846e58ba0bf6dabd23dcc9e367cae17cb0c91b5b3b3fc44",
            "sha256-printable": "SHA256:ROQFvPThGrW4RuWLoL9tq9I9zJ42fK4XywyRtbOz/EQ"
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    "status": 1
  }
}