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known hosts deleted / login fails

I deleted the known_host entries on a 1&1 Virtual Server. I once had changed the original root pwd for the server. With the new pwd as of right now, I can't login any more. The 1&1 support guy said the server is lost and i need to setup a new one.…
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ECDSA host fingerprint changes if the host is already known

I'm using a web hosting service that offers both FTP and SSH access, but for SSH they only allow authentication via SSH keys. I've generated myself SSH keys using ssh-keygen, imported them into my Ubuntu system using ssh-add, and uploaded the key to…
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SSH host key check fails on Debian version, but not on MacOS version

I have this strange situation with host-key checking. ssh -v github.com: works with "OpenSSH_7.9p1, LibreSSL 2.7.3" on MacOS Mojave (10.14.5 (18F132)): debug1: Server host key: ssh-rsa SHA256:nThbg6kXUpJWGl7E1IGOCspRomTxdCARLviKw6E5SY8 debug1:…
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ssh-keyscan does not read .ssh/config?

I am using ssh-keyscan in a shell script to accept keys for hosts. The hosts are identified by hostname but not in /etc/hosts. They are in ./ssh/config so I can ssh but I can not ping etc. It looks like ssh-keyscan is not using the…
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known_host for SSH connection

I program an application in Java. This application make a connection between two PC (One Windows and One Linux). My application must make a connection and make few commands. Among commands, I want transfer a file. This connection is a SSH…
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Cant find "known_hosts" file

one short and probably stupid thing is annoying me... I can't find my 'known_hosts' file on my Windows Server 2008 but it must exist. On the server I have a git-repository that others can access and this works perfectly. However my own coding stuff…
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Sed regexp /d deleting whole file

Given a typical known_hosts file: [123.45.67.89]:22 ssh-rsa bbuivvhbkbjdnflksndkfnksnfk... [98.76.54.32]:14444 ssh-rsa hohdibsodbfoasbfbsabdfbsd... [77.34.122.33]:32209 ssh-rsa bksdjncknsdbcksbdcbhdhhb... Not knowing the line# in the file, but…
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CentOS5 & OpenSSH not recognizing 'HashKnownHosts' and 'StrictHostKeyChecking' directives in sshd_config

I am running the latest build of OpenSSH (4.3p2) from CentOS 5. When I attempt to start the server with /etc/init.d/sshd start, this is the output from bash: Starting sshd: /etc/ssh/sshd_config: line 130: Bad configuration option:…
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Passwordless ssh from Windows to Linux to run scripts from command prompt

What am trying here is ..... I Have some scripts that needs to run in Windows Command (command.exe) and not from Cygwin. The scripts needs to access a specific Linux machine from Windows command prompt and it asks for a password every time the…
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What is the host key (the one from ssh connection) and how is it different from public-private key pair?

The situation is that I've had a VPS created previously. It was all set up, private-public key authentication, root login turned off, password login turned off. Everything was set up. Then this server gets destroyed and a new server gets…
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How to fix offending key phrase, that pops up again and again?

For a github repo I want to update it and I type git fetch --all on the command line, but I am always asked Warning: the ECDSA host key for 'xxx.yyy' differs from the key for the IP address '123.456.789.000' Offending key for IP in…
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ssh-keyscan to known_hosts produces no results

When I execute: ssh-keyscan -H 172.22.56.2 I get the following output: # 172.22.56.2:22 SSH-2.0-RomSShell_4.31 # 172.22.56.2:22 SSH-2.0-RomSShell_4.31 # 172.22.56.2:22 SSH-2.0-RomSShell_4.31 # 172.22.56.2:22 SSH-2.0-RomSShell_4.31 # 172.22.56.2:22…
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ubuntu // running an ssh command as a specific user

I'm looking to add github to known_hosts for the deploy user when the command is ran by the root user. The command would be : ssh -T -o "StrictHostKeyChecking no" git@github.com Using cloudinit, it runs initially with the root user, so this command…
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~/.ssh/known_hosts file - how to set it up?

I'm trying to SCP a file from my server to another server. The command I'm using is: scp -i private.ppk -P 22 foo.txt someuser@domain.com:/home/someuser/foo.txt When I run this via the command line, I get prompted: The authenticity of host…
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