[guardian-dev] odd problem with github giving me the wrong ssh fingerprint

Dev Random c1.devrandom at niftybox.net
Wed Dec 4 03:09:25 EST 2013


I was getting a strange hang during key exchange earlier today, which
were resolved by restarting my computer.  Puzzling.

On 13-12-03 09:42 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> This evening I was trying to push some commits to github, and for about 10
> minutes, I was getting the wrong SSH fingerprint from github.  I didn't seen
> anything using traceroute and tcptraceroute, it was back to normal before I
> could try other stuff.  This is what I was getting:
>
> $ git push origin master
> @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
> @    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 a host key has just been changed.
> The fingerprint for the RSA key sent by the remote host is
> 2e:93:0a:8a:de:d3:a8:e5:50:72:f2:3a:35:4f:ae:2d.
> Please contact your system administrator.
> Add correct host key in /home/hans/.ssh/known_hosts to get rid of this message.
> Offending RSA key in /home/hans/.ssh/known_hosts:213
>   remove with: ssh-keygen -f "/home/hans/.ssh/known_hosts" -R github.com
> RSA host key for github.com has changed and you have requested strict checking.
> Host key verification failed.
> fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
>
>
>
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