Curt, did you run "ssh-keygen -t rsa" to generate the RSA key on this new
server?  Did you include a passphrase when it ran?


On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Curt Lundgren <verif...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks, Dave.  I can reboot one of the clients in the morning, perhaps
> that will clear up the issue.
>
> Curt
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Dave Manginelli <dave.mangine...@gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> I'm at a client's site so I can't test this or be more specific but this
>> sounds to me like the host key of the "old" machine is cached in the client
>> and it does not match the host key of the machine now residing at that IP.
>>  You can test this by using the HostKeyAlias parameter when you connect
>> from the client and setting it to any arbitrary name NOT in actual use on
>> your network.  It should ask you if you accept the new host key and then
>> connect automatically after that as long as the same HostKeyAlias is
>> supplied.  You can fix it by clearing the key for that IP address on the
>> client but I don't remember where it's located and am not able to pursue it
>> right now.
>>
>> Maybe this will point you in the right direction...
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Curt Lundgren <verif...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I've just built a couple of CentOS 6.4 machines, and need to use a
>>> no-password RSA key login to root.  No flames please about logging in as
>>> root.
>>>
>>> Had it working on both machines, but when I changed the "main" IP
>>> address so the new machine could take over for an ailing one, the login
>>> capability was lost.  I can do a password login, but not with the RSA key.
>>>
>>> Thought it might be the server SSH keys, as though they're somehow tied
>>> to IP addresses, so I regenerated them.  No joy.  I've tried logging in
>>> from a couple of different boxes (Linux and Mac), still no joy.
>>>
>>> The other server got built, got its "main" IP address changed, and is
>>> working just fine.  I did a diff between sshd_config on both machines; the
>>> files are identical.
>>>
>>> I'm scratching my head and it's starting to hurt.  Any ideas?  (I know,
>>> stop scratching.)
>>>
>>> Curt
>>>
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