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Re: editing "new" known_hosts files



On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 11:48:00PM +0200, LeVA wrote:

> I have reinstalled a server of mine, and now I need to remove it's old 
> pubkey from my $HOME/.ssh/known_hosts, but it is in the "new" format, 
> so no hostnames which may indicate which pubkey belongs to which host.
> How can I "decrypt" the known_hosts file?

  You can't decrypt them, but you can delete all entries for a given
 host with:

    ssh-keygen -R host.name

  See the manpage for ssh-keygen for details.  (Search for "hash" to
 see the relevent options.)

Steve
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Debian GNU/Linux System Administration
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