On 25/05/12 13:24, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I recently had to reinstall Squeeze on my desktop box due to hard disk > issues. On reinstalling OpenSSH a new key was generated. Now, when I > try to connect from my laptop I get the following message: > > @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ > @ WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! @ > @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ > IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE IS DOING SOMETHING NASTY! > Someone could be eavesdropping on you right now (man-in-the-middle attack)! > It is also possible that the RSA host key has just been changed. > The fingerprint for the RSA key sent by the remote host is > cb:fa:a3:10:3d:01:c0:e6:6a:2d:3e:59:e1:b9:4e:b8. > Please contact your system administrator. > Add correct host key in /home/marc/.ssh/known_hosts to get rid of this > message. > Offending key in /home/marc/.ssh/known_hosts:1 > RSA host key for xander has changed and you have requested strict checking. > Host key verification failed. > > > > Googling for how to update my known_hosts file turned up this suggestion: > > ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no yourserver > > I tried this (obviously replacing "yourserver" with the name of my > desktop box to which I am trying to connect). This resulted in the > following, similar, but not quite the same message: > > @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ > @ WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! @ > @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ > IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE IS DOING SOMETHING NASTY! > Someone could be eavesdropping on you right now (man-in-the-middle attack)! > It is also possible that the RSA host key has just been changed. > The fingerprint for the RSA key sent by the remote host is > cb:fa:a3:10:3d:01:c0:e6:6a:2d:3e:59:e1:b9:4e:b8. > Please contact your system administrator. > Add correct host key in /home/marc/.ssh/known_hosts to get rid of this > message. > Offending key in /home/marc/.ssh/known_hosts:1
<snipped> > > How do I manually enter the rsa key, or get ssh to do so, so that I > can connect again? > > Marc > > $ nano .ssh/known_hosts and delete the first line (they're numbered starting with 1). That's it. Kind regards -- Iceweasel/Firefox/Chrome/Chromium/Iceape/IE extensions for finding answers to questions about Debian:- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections/Scott_Ferguson/debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fbf1a77.6000...@gmail.com
