Deleting from .ssh/known_hosts

Michael Satterwhite michael at weblore.com
Fri Jan 26 15:35:12 UTC 2007


One of the sites I support has changed hosting companies. As a result, the ssh 
fingerprint has changed in known_hosts, preventing me from using ssh to 
connect to it.

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.

Can anyone offer a suggestion. I'd rather not just delete the known_hosts file 
and let ssh rebuild everything as I move forward, but if I have to, I will.





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