<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On Dec 27, 2005, at 11:53 PM, T Molnar wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">I gave it a try through terminal and the connect to server dialogue box,<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>but my host key verification failed :-(</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">First the ssh protocol 1 wasn't accepted by the server, then when I changed it to protocol 2</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>the server responded and warned me my host key had been altered.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>And so exited my request.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>You evidently logged in (or tried to log in) using a different combination of hostname or username/password combo at some point, and have duplicate host keys in ~/.ssh/known_hosts for the host IP. If you don't SSH to lots of different machines and have no need to save the host keys it's easiest to not fix the problem and just delete the file, letting the SSH client re-create it.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>From Terminal do:</DIV><DIV>rm ~/.ssh/known_hosts</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>to remove the file. Note the dot in front of .ssh - it's a hidden directory. Then try logging in again without using the Connect to Server browser. At the command line simply type in:</DIV><DIV>ssh hostname</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>replacing hostname with the actual host. It'll say the authenticity of the host can't be established, cat the RSA key fingerprint, and ask if you really want to connect to this host. Type in "yes" and it'll prompt you for your password, then connect.<DIV><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-- </DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Chris</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-------------------------</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">PGP Key: <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN><A href="http://astcomm.net/~chris/PGP_Public_Key/">http://astcomm.net/~chris/PGP_Public_Key/</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-------------------------</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>