From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: chuck gelm Subject: Re: SOLVED: Some users locked out of ssh and sftp? Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 09:54:10 -0500 Message-ID: <4236F712.6000508@gelm.net> References: <20050315092308.63122.qmail@web53603.mail.yahoo.com> Reply-To: chuck@gelm.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <20050315092308.63122.qmail@web53603.mail.yahoo.com> Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Donald Duckie Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Donald Duckie wrote: > I got this error message as shown below . . . > How do I change the /root/.ssh/known_hosts file? > It seems encrypted . . . Hi, Donald: The file is not encripted, but it contains an encription key for each remote hostname. There is a line for each 'ssh' host that you have sucessfully connected. If the remote 'host' has changed its encription key and you already have a line with the old encription key, 'ssh' will fail with that message. Solution: Use a 'text' editor and open /root/.ssh/known_hosts. Delete the line that starts with the remote hostname. Save and exit. (or 'rm known_hosts') 'ssh' to that hostname. Answer 'yes' when prompted. HTH, Chuck - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs