Because he started the install over and it created a new ssh key -- at least
I'm assuming?

Scott

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Adam Thornton <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Jan 21, 2009, at 9:27 AM, Ray Waters wrote:
>
>  I have the Starter System built (NOVSTART) and can logon to it via
>> putty @ 172.16.28.62.
>>
>> Yesterday I brought up NOVSTART(172.16.28.62) and my new LINUX guest
>> named LINUXEKM (172.16.28.63), ran SLES exec, and was able to
>> connect via ssh -X [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> from
>> NOVSTART. It was too late in the day to start the configuration via
>> Yast, so I logged out of LINUXEKM then logged out of NOVSTART.
>>
>> Today I tried to start again and brought up NOVSTART, brought up
>> LINUXEKM, ran thru SLES exec as before with no problems. But when I
>> try to connect to the new guest via ssh -X [email protected]<mailto:
>> [email protected]
>> > so I can configure, I get errors today. Yesterday it worked fine.
>> How do I fix this? There is no attack.
>>
>>
>> novstart:~ # ssh -X [email protected]
>> @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
>> @    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 DSA host key has just been changed.
>> The fingerprint for the DSA key sent by the remote host is
>> 18:0d:e9:12:5b:f7:85:30:28:6c:f5:60:ab:b6:05:92.
>> Please contact your system administrator.
>> Add correct host key in /root/.ssh/known_hosts to get rid of this
>> message.
>> Offending key in /root/.ssh/known_hosts:4
>> DSA host key for 172.16.28.63 has changed and you have requested
>> strict checking.
>> Host key verification failed.
>> novstart:~ #
>>
>
> If all you want to do is log in, delete line 4 of /root/.ssh/
> known_hosts.
>
> But it would probably be good to know WHY the host key changed.
>
> Adam
>
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