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 Kind regards -- Iceweasel/Firefox/Chrome/Chromium/Iceape/IE extensions for finding answers to questions about Debian:- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections/Scott_Ferguson/debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fbf36c9.7060...@gmail.com