I apologize for contributing to further confusion.
I have not realized that you had two different email threads with
different subjects going on the same topic.
I should have staid out of it with so many messages in flight.
Maybe, it would help to re-read the man page for ssh and make some
notes for the next time... That is what I do with confusing and
infrequent issues... Perhaps even automate the setup, so that you can
easily reset the configuration.
Tomas
On Fri, 2017-02-24 at 14:46 -0800, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Feb 2017, Tom wrote:
>
> > a) Yes it will wipe all existing entries from known_hosts file, but
> > they will be all recreated when you login to those hosts again in
> > the
> > future.
>
> Tom,
>
> I thought this is the case when I moved the public key files to
> authorized_keys and found instant connection from the laptop to the
> desktop
> with ssh. Whew! I thought I had this all configured when I replaced
> the hard
> drive on the laptop with a 500G SSD and installed Slackware
> -14.2/x86_64 on
> it. Obviously, I did not set up ssh keys at that time.
>
> Much appreciated,
>
> Rich
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