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How to: Change Known Local Hosts File to Dismiss "WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED!"

SkySilk Cloud Platform utilities cycled IPs, so when one VM is deleted its IP address is freed up and reassigned to a new VM. Because of this, you may be accessing a VM with an IP address that has a previously assigned ssh key associated with it, which will produce the following error:

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@    WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED!     @
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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 a host key has just been changed.
The fingerprint for the ECDSA key sent by the remote host is

Please contact your system administrator.


To fix, you need to remove the previously assigned ssh key from the IP address you are trying to access. To do that type:

ssh-keygen -R *ip_address_or_hostname*


Then, try to Access your VM via SSH and you should be able to login like normal.

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