Re: remote host identification has changed
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 12:37:39PM +0200, marTin wrote:
> dudes,
> i received a message today from one of my users, who, logging in to
> one of our servers from a remote internet cafe (which she used for the
> first time) that:
>
>
>
> @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
> @ 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 host key has just been changed.
> Please contact your system administrator.
I have got this kind of message when I log in using ssh but
as a different user than I normally do. For example, I log
in to a server to do remote administration as myself; once,
by error, I tried to log in when I had assumed root status.
At that time I got this message, realised what I was doing
and exited root status.
Sam
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