Booting from SD

Visti Andresen talpa at talpa.dk
Sat Jul 25 13:37:54 CEST 2009


> > Please contact your system administrator.
> > Add correct host key in /root/.ssh/known_hosts to get rid of this message.
> > Offending key in /root/.ssh/known_hosts:1
> > RSA host key for 192.168.0.202 has changed and you have requested strict
> > checking.
> > Host key verification failed.
> >
> > What could be the problem and how can it be solved?
> 
> Vikas has explained the solution. The cause is that the new installation has a 
> new RSA key, but the same IP address as before. This is as it should be, but 
> when you try to connect to it ssh on your PC is rightly paranoid, and warns 
> you that the key for that IP address has changed. As the changed key is 
> expected we can safely delete the old entry from ~/.ssh/known_hosts on the PC.

P.S. "Offending key in /root/.ssh/known_hosts:1"
tells you which file and the line number (line 1) the offending key is located on.

Also running commands as "root" is kinda risky (always try to minimize root usage)

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Visti Andresen



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