REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED

Edit your ~/.ssh/known_hosts file and remove the offending line that contains that machine's IP address or hostname.

-Chris

The RSA host key will change when you reinstall a system from scratch, such as removing the Fedore Core disk (and all related disk images) and installing CentOS.

Just edit the file /Users/MYNAME/.ssh/knownhosts (~/.ssh/knownhosts) on your local computer using your favorite text editor (nano, vi/vim, whatever) and delete the line that begins with MYIP (your Linode's IP address).

The error "Offending key in /Users/MYNAME/.ssh/knownhosts:3" suggests that the old host key is on line 3 of knownhosts.

Hello,

The problem is to reach that file. Since ssh does not work, I tried Remote Console Access with Lish (Linode Shell). I can login. But I cannot find the folder /Users:

[root@liXX-XXX /]# ls -al

total 212

drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 May 14 15:04 .

drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 May 14 15:04 ..

-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 0 May 14 15:04 .autofsck

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 14 2005 bin

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 14 2005 boot

drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 118784 May 14 15:04 dev

drwxr-xr-x 53 root root 4096 May 14 15:04 etc

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 21 2005 home

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 21 2005 initrd

drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Mar 14 2005 lib

drwx------ 2 root root 16384 May 3 2003 lost+found

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 21 2005 media

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 21 2005 misc

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 21 2005 mnt

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 21 2005 opt

dr-xr-xr-x 43 root root 0 May 14 15:03 proc

drwxr-x--- 2 root root 4096 May 14 15:07 root

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 14 2005 sbin

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 21 2005 selinux

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 21 2005 srv

drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 0 May 14 15:03 sys

drwxrwxrwt 4 root root 4096 May 14 15:04 tmp

drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 Mar 14 2005 usr

drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4096 Mar 14 2005 var

I am not sure what to do here.

The entry from known_hosts needs to be removed on the machine you're SSHing from, to to.

Hello,

I am feeling pretty dummy on that one! It works very well now. Thank you too all

:oops:

For the record, if you ever get this message and you haven't reinstalled or asked SSH to generate a new host key, don't connect. If you have reinstalled or done a new host key, it's perfectly safe to remove the entry, but not if it comes up without warning. :D

Yes, good point. We got caught up in providing the "fix" and never mentioned the real purpose of the thing!