[X-Unix] rsync & ssh

[Lasse]

The brute force way of this is
rm -rf .ssh/known_hosts

/L
Den 5/7-2004, kl. 22.30, skrev amoser at sewanee.edu:

> A few months ago I set up (relying in part on helpful
> instructions at
> http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/%7Eccunning/osx-backup.html)
> a rudimentary backup scheme from my powerbook to an iMac: in
> the wee hours of the morning the powerbook would connect to
> the imac via ssh, using public key authentication, and would
> then use rsync to synchronize some key folders. This felt
> like quite an accomplishment, since I'm a bit of a unix
> idiot, but I've recently noticed that the ssh connection no
> longer works -- any attempt to ssh from the powerbook to the
> imac yields the following msg:
>
> WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED!     @
> @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
> 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 the RSA host key has just been
> changed.
> The fingerprint for the RSA key sent by the remote host is
> 5f:6a:9d:b6:63:b1:3b:5f:65:91:ee:62:44:e9:3d:d7.
> Please contact your system administrator.
> Add correct host key in /var/root/.ssh/known_hosts to get
> rid of this message.
> Offending key in /var/root/.ssh/known_hosts:1
> RSA host key for 10.0.1.2 has changed and you have requested
> strict checking.
> Host key verification failed.
>
> Keeping in mind that my knowledge of unix (and the technical
> terms associated with it) is woefully inadequate, any
> suggestions about what I need to do to get the ssh and
> backup scheme up and running again? (I think I changed the
> admin password on the imac recently, so that may account for
> the problem, but I still don't know quite what to do to
> solve it.)
>
> Also, it seems like there just aren't many unix resources
> (books, websites, etc.) geared toward showing people who
> aren't unix gurus but are competent with computers how they
> can leverage the unix commands inn Mac OS X to accomplish
> useful things like backups. (Man pages tend to be pretty
> unhelpful in this respect.) Any thoughts on this score?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> Andrew Moser
> Department of Philosophy
> University of the South
>
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