Topic: Problem with ssh?

[Blake Heinemann]

Not sure how or why, but after I changed the domain name on my esmith box, ssh now isn't working. Says that password is denied in putty, and on esmith, when I look at the logs, it says that it was an invalid password.  Yet I can log in from the console with the same password.  Anyone else have problems with putty doing this?

[rob fantini]

there are files in the $HOME/.ssh  directory which  need to be changed after a host name change.

 On the e-smith box, regen your keys. use ssh-keygen and
ssh-keygen -d . in both cases overwrite the files. this wull create new  id_dsa,  id_dsa.pub , identity and identity.pub files.


 if you are ssh'ing in from a unix box, on the computer you are logging in from, edit $HOME/.ssh/known_hosts* . delete the lines which refrence the old host name.

 if you are using ssh from a pc to e-smith, i've never had to change the known_hosts type file on the pc. there probavly is a file to edit, but I don't know the location or name.

 you can get debugging info for ssh by using  'ssh -v ' ...

 the above will work with most of my unix computers. there may be 'known_host' like files in /etc or /etc/ssh to check .
 if there are delete records which reference your old domain name....