ssh user@server1.example.com
But I’m getting an error which read as follows:
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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
5c:9b:16:56:a6:cd:11:10:3a:cd:1b:a2:91:cd:e5:1c.
Please contact your system administrator.
Add correct host key in /Users/user/.ssh/known_hosts to get rid of this message.
Offending key in /Users/user/.ssh/known_hosts:1
RSA host key for server1.example.com has changed and you have requested strict checking.
Host key verification failed.
How do I fix this problem under Mac OX X?
You need to run the following command to get rid of this problem. Open the terminal application and then type the following command on your macOS Unix system:
ssh-keygen -R server-name ssh-keygen -R server.ip.addre.ss ssh-keygen -R 202.54.1.5 ssh-keygen -R server1.example.com ## for non-standard ssh port ## ssh-keygen -R 'server1.example.com:PORT' ssh-keygen -R 'server1.example.com:4122'
Fig.01: Removing /Users/user/.ssh/known_hosts file
Test it
Now you can connect to remote host with ssh or sftp or scp command:
ssh user@server1.example.com ssh -p user@server1.example.com
Use -p Port to connect to on the remote host using given Port. This can be specified on a per-host basis in the configuration file such as ~/.ssh/config.
Getting help
The ssh-keygen command generates, manages and converts authentication keys for ssh. The ssh-keygen can create keys for use by SSH protocol version 2 and do other stuff for use. Hence, read the man page by typing the following commands:
man ssh-keygen
man ssh
man sshd
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Much appreciated Vivek, this worked for me no probs!
This helped me out as well – thank you, happy new year!
Didn’t work for me, showed exactly what you said it would but when I try to SSH in it continues to show the original message… :-(
Thanks for this. Had two ftp sites that Coda refused to connect to, but Cyberduck was happy with.
Worked great! Thank you!!
I was having the same problem as I was setting up a lots of routers with the same IP over ssh. What worked for me was to remove known_hosts file which is stored in ~/.ssh/knonw_host. So what I did was updating my /etc/bashrc file with the following lines:
rmknownhosts()
{
rm ~/.ssh/known_hosts
}
Than when this message appeared I simply typed rmknownhosts and delete the file.
I don`t know if this is right step to deal with that. But it definitely worked for me.
Hope that helps.
Worked for me… I just needed to clear the 1 entry of “[myserver].com”
ssh-keygen -R [myserver].com
Great, exactly what I needed quick and simple. Thank you!
Unfortunately I don’t think this command actually did anything.
Thanks!
It worked by using the following commands:
cd /Users/Username/.ssh/Known_hostsssh-keygen -R domain-name
ssh-keygen -R server
Thanks
You saved me today. Thanks, it worked for me under a complicated situation. Thanks.
If your host uses a non-standard SSH port number then you might need to explicitly state the domain name and port number when using the ssh-keygen command, like this:
ssh-keygen -R '[mydomain.com]:2222'On my machine, using
ssh-keygen -R mydomain.comreported that the known_hosts file had been updated (i.e. it looks like it worked) but no changes had actually been made.
I see. Makes sense. Thank you for the feedback.