From 189781e00c89227612942ff7dc30eaa756cb78ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net>
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:23:45 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] proposed fix for #1147 by checking for known_hosts file

---
 src/monkeysphere | 13 ++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/monkeysphere b/src/monkeysphere
index 341b9fd..94279f4 100755
--- a/src/monkeysphere
+++ b/src/monkeysphere
@@ -194,7 +194,18 @@ if [ -z "$KEYSERVER" ] ; then
     fi
 fi
 PROMPT=${MONKEYSPHERE_PROMPT:=$PROMPT}
-KNOWN_HOSTS=${MONKEYSPHERE_KNOWN_HOSTS:=$KNOWN_HOSTS}
+# check the known_hosts file
+if [ "$MONKEYSPHERE_KNOWN_HOSTS" ] ; then
+    if [ -f "$MONKEYSPHERE_KNOWN_HOSTS" ] ; then
+	KNOWN_HOSTS="$MONKEYSPHERE_KNOWN_HOSTS"
+    else
+	failure "specified monkeysphere known_hosts file '$MONKEYSPHERE_KNOWN_HOSTS' does not exist."
+    fi
+fi
+[ -d $(dirname "$KNOWN_HOSTS") ] \
+    || mkdir -m 0700 $(dirname "$KNOWN_HOSTS")
+[ -f "$KNOWN_HOSTS" ] \
+    || touch "$KNOWN_HOSTS"
 HASH_KNOWN_HOSTS=${MONKEYSPHERE_HASH_KNOWN_HOSTS:=$HASH_KNOWN_HOSTS}
 AUTHORIZED_KEYS=${MONKEYSPHERE_AUTHORIZED_KEYS:=$AUTHORIZED_KEYS}
 
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2.25.1