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How to reset SSH configuration on my PC?

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Mar 15, 202640416 views
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Problem

How can I reset all the SSH settings, so that it worked as after fresh install? (I may delete the keys, they're not needed anymore.) In Ubuntu 9.10, after a certain moment I started getting "Host key verification error" on every SSH server! This doesn't happen if I boot U9.10 from a USB stick. does…

Error Output

culebron@culebron:~/.ssh$ ssh culebron@217.******
Host key verification failed.
culebron@culebron:~/.ssh$

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Fix for: How to reset SSH configuration on my PC?

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Backup ~/.ssh on your computer, rm -rf ~/.ssh, try again. If that works, figure out which part of your old ~/.ssh was causing the problem (if you care).

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