REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED!
December 8, 2021 Leave a comment
Problem:
Connecting via ssh to the newly created host causes error:
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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 a host key has just been changed.
The fingerprint for the ECDSA key sent by the remote host is
SHA256:AxfpHOVc8NP2OYPGce92HMa5LADDQj2V98ZKgoQHFGU.
Please contact your system administrator.
Add correct host key in /Users/mari/.ssh/known_hosts to get rid of this message.
Offending ECDSA key in /Users/mari/.ssh/known_hosts:315
ECDSA host key for 52.1.130.91 has changed and you have requested strict checking.
Host key verification failed.
Reason:
I had another server with the same Public IP, so when I connected to the old saver the host identification has been saved in known_hosts
. After a while I have removed old server and created a new one and assigned the PIP. The host identification has changed, but old entries were still saved in known_hosts
.
Solution:
Open /Users/mari/.ssh/known_hosts
and delete only the line containing mentioned IP (52.1.130.91 in my case), save file and retry the connection.
It should work now.