Re: [Savannah-hackers] WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED!

[Rudy Gevaert]

Please read the announcement of the savannah webpage and the replies
to it.

On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 05:03:31PM -0400, Aubrey Jaffer wrote:
> Last night I got a warning similar to the appended one.  I deleted the
> savanna.gnu.org and subversions.gnu.org lines from .ssh/known_hosts
> and was able to connect.
> 
> Today I got the appended message.  Did you change the host key for
> subversions.gnu.org twice in 24 hours?  Or am I actually experiencing
> a man-in-the-middle attack?
> 
>                             -=-=-=-=-
> 
> @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
> @    WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED!     @
> @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
> IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE IS DOING SOMETHING NASTY!
> Someone could be eavesdropping on you right now (man-in-the-middle attack)!
> It is also possible that the RSA1 host key has just been changed.
> The fingerprint for the RSA1 key sent by the remote host is
> 66:f4:9a:7e:e3:a8:c5:16:d1:88:aa:ef:3e:06:75:30.
> Please contact your system administrator.
> Add correct host key in /home/jaffer/.ssh/known_hosts to get rid of this 
> message.
> Offending key in /home/jaffer/.ssh/known_hosts:32
> RSA1 host key for subversions.gnu.org has changed and you have requested 
> strict checking.
> Host key verification failed.
> 
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