On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 00:40 -0400, KS wrote: > Sudev Barar wrote: > > On 03/05/07, KS <lists04@fastmail.fm> wrote: > >> Allan Wind wrote: > >> > 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. > > > > Should you not be removing the old host info from know_hosts file? > > Typically the ssh failure out put contains either host name or line > > number that failed where ever host side changes occur. > > > > That is what I did, although not with a text editor. I have a hashed > version of known_hosts file and unlike the non-hashed file, couldn't > find the line to remove. The warning contained something that might be > line number to *change* but I wasn't sure. That was why I was trying to > find a way to do it "automatically" (ssh-keygen) than firing up vi and > removing the line. > > The warning had following in it, is the :3 in the end the line number? > > Add correct host key in /home/foobar/.ssh/known_hosts to get rid of this > message. > Offending key in /home/foobar/.ssh/known_hosts:3 Line number 3. Remove that current line and you should be good. Cheers. -- greg, greg@gregfolkert.net Novell's Directory Services is a competitive product to Microsoft's Active Directory in much the same way that the Saturn V is a competitive product to those dinky little model rockets that kids light off down at the playfield. -- Thane Walkup
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