Re: How to get new RSA key in known_hosts file?

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 25 May 2012 17:37:45 +1000
Scott Ferguson <scott.ferguson.debian.user@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 25/05/12 17:00, Markus Schönhaber wrote:
> <snipped>
> 
> > man ssh-keygen
> > | -R hostname
> > |    Removes all keys belonging to hostname from a known_hosts
> > |    file.  This option is useful to delete hashed hosts (see the -H
> > option above).
> > 
> > One can, of course, edit known_hosts manually to achieve the same
> > effect. 
> 
> 
> >But I consider ssh-keygen -R to be the safer method.
> 
> And I agree.
> And thanks for reminding me to read the man - I'd simply confirmed that
> the quoted command didn't work without realising it was just wrongly used.
> 
> 
> Please read the post I was responding to again.... :-)
> "ssh-keygen -R your_hostname_or_ip_address" *will not solve the OP's
> problem*.
> 
> Which would explain the OP's reponse to that.
> 
> 
> ssh-keygen -R the_remote_ip_address *will work*
> as will deleting the conflicting entry in known_hosts

Of course - when I wrote 'your', I meant the remote host. Sorry.

Celejar