Small problem with ssh/know_hosts

Tony Nelson tonynelson at georgeanelson.com
Mon Aug 27 03:38:39 UTC 2007


At 6:18 PM -0400 8/26/07, Steven W. Orr wrote:
>On Sunday, Aug 26th 2007 at 16:46 -0400, quoth Neil Cherry:
>
>=>Steven W. Orr wrote:
>=>> I replaced a machine (pluto) and I made sure that the entry on both sides
>=>> for known_hosts for both src and dest were removed. When I try to go from
>=>> pluto to saturn there's no problem. But when I try to go from saturn to
>=>> pluto I get this warning every time. Pluto is Fedora 7 and saturn is
>Core 4
>=>> (if that matters).
>=>>
>=>> 543 > ssh pluto
>=>> Warning: the RSA host key for 'pluto' differs from the key for the IP
>=>> address '192.168.0.2'
>=>> Offending key for IP in /home/steveo/.ssh/known_hosts:1
>=>> Matching host key in /home/steveo/.ssh/known_hosts:23
>=>> Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)?
>=>>
>=>>
>=>> Anyone? :-(
>=>
>=>Pluto have a new unique hash (?) associated with the ssh installation.
>=>When you replaced the machine did you install new or are you using
>=>the old disk?
>
>Let's say it's new. Where is the file that holds the old hash?

As the error message says, the file is /home/steveo/.ssh/known_hosts.
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