How to get new RSA key in known_hosts file?
I recently had to reinstall Squeeze on my desktop box due to hard disk
issues. On reinstalling OpenSSH a new key was generated. Now, when I
try to connect from my laptop I get the following message:
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@ WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! @
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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 RSA host key has just been changed.
The fingerprint for the RSA key sent by the remote host is
cb:fa:a3:10:3d:01:c0:e6:6a:2d:3e:59:e1:b9:4e:b8.
Please contact your system administrator.
Add correct host key in /home/marc/.ssh/known_hosts to get rid of this message.
Offending key in /home/marc/.ssh/known_hosts:1
RSA host key for xander has changed and you have requested strict checking.
Host key verification failed.
Googling for how to update my known_hosts file turned up this suggestion:
ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no yourserver
I tried this (obviously replacing "yourserver" with the name of my
desktop box to which I am trying to connect). This resulted in the
following, similar, but not quite the same message:
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
@ 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 RSA host key has just been changed.
The fingerprint for the RSA key sent by the remote host is
cb:fa:a3:10:3d:01:c0:e6:6a:2d:3e:59:e1:b9:4e:b8.
Please contact your system administrator.
Add correct host key in /home/marc/.ssh/known_hosts to get rid of this message.
Offending key in /home/marc/.ssh/known_hosts:1
Password authentication is disabled to avoid man-in-the-middle attacks.
Keyboard-interactive authentication is disabled to avoid
man-in-the-middle attacks.
Permission denied (publickey,password).
I have no .ssh/config file
The contents of my /etc/ssh/ssh_config file is:
# This is the ssh client system-wide configuration file. See
# ssh_config(5) for more information. This file provides defaults for
# users, and the values can be changed in per-user configuration files
# or on the command line.
# Configuration data is parsed as follows:
# 1. command line options
# 2. user-specific file
# 3. system-wide file
# Any configuration value is only changed the first time it is set.
# Thus, host-specific definitions should be at the beginning of the
# configuration file, and defaults at the end.
# Site-wide defaults for some commonly used options. For a comprehensive
# list of available options, their meanings and defaults, please see the
# ssh_config(5) man page.
Host *
# ForwardAgent no
# ForwardX11 no
# ForwardX11Trusted yes
# RhostsRSAAuthentication no
# RSAAuthentication yes
# PasswordAuthentication yes
# HostbasedAuthentication no
# GSSAPIAuthentication no
# GSSAPIDelegateCredentials no
# GSSAPIKeyExchange no
# GSSAPITrustDNS no
# BatchMode no
# CheckHostIP yes
# AddressFamily any
# ConnectTimeout 0
# StrictHostKeyChecking ask
# IdentityFile ~/.ssh/identity
# IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa
# IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_dsa
# Port 22
# Protocol 2,1
# Cipher 3des
# Ciphers aes128-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes256-ctr,arcfour256,arcfour128,aes128-cbc,3des-cbc
# MACs hmac-md5,hmac-sha1,umac-64@openssh.com,hmac-ripemd160
# EscapeChar ~
# Tunnel no
# TunnelDevice any:any
# PermitLocalCommand no
# VisualHostKey no
# ProxyCommand ssh -q -W %h:%p gateway.example.com
SendEnv LANG LC_*
HashKnownHosts yes
GSSAPIAuthentication yes
GSSAPIDelegateCredentials no
How do I manually enter the rsa key, or get ssh to do so, so that I
can connect again?
Marc
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