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How To Fix Offending key in ~/.ssh/known_hosts file

As we discussed earlier in our basic ssh client commands article, when you do ssh to a machine for the 1st time (or whenever there is a key change in the remote machine), you will be prompted to say ‘yes’ for authenticity of host. This feature is controlled using StrictHostKeyChecking ssh parameter. By default StrictHostKeyChecking [...]

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