Re: Deleting from .ssh/known_hosts

Hi,

The fix, of course, would be to let ssh create a new fingerprint. To do that,
I need to delete the fingerprint for the old host. As the host names aren't
in clear text, I have no idea how to go about this. I'm sure it's easy, but
I've looked in the man page, and it isn't obviously documented.

when ssh tells you the fingerprint has changed, it should tell you the
line which contains the fingerprint, then you could do

vi +line_number ~/.ssh/known_hosts

and then issue

dd

to delete the "offending" line.

cheers

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