On 2007-05-02T23:10:07-0400, KS wrote: > However, ssh-keygen gives me the exact same output if I try to do it > again even though the host does not exist in the file (same output with > -v flag). Shouldn't it give a more informative output like: host entry > not found in known_hosts file? Or am I missing something. So you did the following? If not give it a try where ... is hostname in question: hostname=... ssh-keygen -R $hostname ssh $hostname /Allan