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-#!/bin/bash
-
-# Originally taken from the Flux project (https://github.com/fluxcd/flux/tree/master/docker) where is under an
-# Apache-2.0 license
-
-set -eu
-
-known_hosts_file=${1}
-known_hosts_file=${known_hosts_file:-/etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts}
-hosts="github.com gitlab.com bitbucket.org ssh.dev.azure.com vs-ssh.visualstudio.com"
-hosts_2022="source.developers.google.com"
-
-# The heredoc below was generated by constructing a known_hosts using
-#
-#     ssh-keyscan github.com gitlab.com bitbucket.org ssh.dev.azure.com vs-ssh.visualstudio.com > ./known_hosts
-#
-# then generating the sorted fingerprints with
-#
-#     ssh-keygen -l -f ./known_hosts | LC_ALL=C sort
-#
-# then checking against the published fingerprints from:
-#  - github.com: https://help.github.com/articles/github-s-ssh-key-fingerprints/
-#  - gitlab.com: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/gitlab_com/#ssh-host-keys-fingerprints
-#  - bitbucket.org: https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/ssh-keys-935365775.html
-#  - ssh.dev.azure.com & vs-ssh.visualstudio.com: sign in, then go to User settings -> SSH Public Keys
-#    (this is where the public key fingerprint is shown; it's not a setting)
-#  - source.developers.google.com: https://cloud.google.com/source-repositories/docs/cloning-repositories
-
-fingerprints=$(mktemp -t)
-cleanup() {
-    rm -f "$fingerprints"
-}
-trap cleanup EXIT
-
-# make sure sorting is in the same locale as the heredoc
-export LC_ALL=C
-
-generate() {
-    ssh-keyscan ${hosts} > ${known_hosts_file}
-    ssh-keyscan -p 2022 ${hosts_2022} >> ${known_hosts_file}
-}
-
-validate() {
-ssh-keygen -l -f ${known_hosts_file} | sort > "$fingerprints"
-
-diff - "$fingerprints" <<EOF
-2048 SHA256:ROQFvPThGrW4RuWLoL9tq9I9zJ42fK4XywyRtbOz/EQ gitlab.com (RSA)
-2048 SHA256:nThbg6kXUpJWGl7E1IGOCspRomTxdCARLviKw6E5SY8 github.com (RSA)
-2048 SHA256:ohD8VZEXGWo6Ez8GSEJQ9WpafgLFsOfLOtGGQCQo6Og ssh.dev.azure.com (RSA)
-2048 SHA256:ohD8VZEXGWo6Ez8GSEJQ9WpafgLFsOfLOtGGQCQo6Og vs-ssh.visualstudio.com (RSA)
-2048 SHA256:zzXQOXSRBEiUtuE8AikJYKwbHaxvSc0ojez9YXaGp1A bitbucket.org (RSA)
-256 SHA256:+DiY3wvvV6TuJJhbpZisF/zLDA0zPMSvHdkr4UvCOqU github.com (ED25519)
-256 SHA256:AGvEpqYNMqsRNIviwyk4J4HM0lEylomDBKOWZsBn434 [source.developers.google.com]:2022 (ECDSA)
-256 SHA256:HbW3g8zUjNSksFbqTiUWPWg2Bq1x8xdGUrliXFzSnUw gitlab.com (ECDSA)
-256 SHA256:eUXGGm1YGsMAS7vkcx6JOJdOGHPem5gQp4taiCfCLB8 gitlab.com (ED25519)
-256 SHA256:p2QAMXNIC1TJYWeIOttrVc98/R1BUFWu3/LiyKgUfQM github.com (ECDSA)
-EOF
-
-}
-
-retries=10
-count=0
-ok=false
-wait=2
-until ${ok}; do
-    generate && validate && ok=true || ok=false
-    count=$(($count + 1))
-    if [[ ${count} -eq ${retries} ]]; then
-        echo "ssh-keyscan failed, no more retries left"
-        exit 1
-    fi
-    sleep ${wait}
-done
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