We have checked the /root/.ssh/authorized_keys and /root/.ssh/known_hosts
files and cleared the old entries out of there.  That was the first thing
to check and it usually fixes this sort of issue (replacing a server with a
new one).  In this case, that didn't work.


On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Dave Manginelli
<[email protected]>wrote:

> I'm at a client's site so I can't test this or be more specific but this
> sounds to me like the host key of the "old" machine is cached in the client
> and it does not match the host key of the machine now residing at that IP.
>  You can test this by using the HostKeyAlias parameter when you connect
> from the client and setting it to any arbitrary name NOT in actual use on
> your network.  It should ask you if you accept the new host key and then
> connect automatically after that as long as the same HostKeyAlias is
> supplied.  You can fix it by clearing the key for that IP address on the
> client but I don't remember where it's located and am not able to pursue it
> right now.
>
> Maybe this will point you in the right direction...
>
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Curt Lundgren <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I've just built a couple of CentOS 6.4 machines, and need to use a
>> no-password RSA key login to root.  No flames please about logging in as
>> root.
>>
>> Had it working on both machines, but when I changed the "main" IP address
>> so the new machine could take over for an ailing one, the login capability
>> was lost.  I can do a password login, but not with the RSA key.
>>
>> Thought it might be the server SSH keys, as though they're somehow tied
>> to IP addresses, so I regenerated them.  No joy.  I've tried logging in
>> from a couple of different boxes (Linux and Mac), still no joy.
>>
>> The other server got built, got its "main" IP address changed, and is
>> working just fine.  I did a diff between sshd_config on both machines; the
>> files are identical.
>>
>> I'm scratching my head and it's starting to hurt.  Any ideas?  (I know,
>> stop scratching.)
>>
>> Curt
>>
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