SSH problem Host key authentication failure

[Mike Burger]

This is normal...if you didn't keep the contents of your /etc/ssh 
directory around, then, upon installation, OpenSSH recreated all its keys.

On the client machine(s), go into the .ssh directories for any users which 
are/were doing these automated processes.  Edit their .known_hosts files, 
and remove the entries for the server in question.

Then, as those users, manually connect to the server, anew, and accept the 
new key.  Your scripts should start working again.

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Nitin wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Since I installed 1 of my server afresh, I'm getting this problem while trying to SSH to the remote machine from within a script. Same script was working fine earlier. I can SSH from the prompt but from within the script it gives this error:
> 
> Host key authentication failure

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