host key verification failed

Posted on October 13, 2013

i was having trouble installing ZenCart on my server, so i decided to start over completely w/ a new drop. i deleted my previous drop and started on a new one. i recieved the password from DO but now, when i login via the command line using ssh i get a ‘host key verification’ failed notice.

so aggravated, what should i do?

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Francis Rodrigues

June 21, 2017

The same problem not that I create one ssh key to my root user on server and also restarted the ssh and sshd service. Now I’m not access my droplet.

$ ssh root@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx The authenticity of host ‘xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx)’ can’t be established. ECDSA key fingerprint is 59:95:7b:f1:06:3d:51:b2:27:1a:98:fc:0c:47:ac:ec. Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? Host key verification failed.

ruth quintana

December 22, 2017

Hi, If it helps, after trying to add the new IP address when I changed my drolplet, and not achieve to connect, I just clear ( remove the lines ) the old keys on known_hosts file, and I tried to access again. It generated a new key in this file, it asked me the password, and I could access again. Have Luck!