Suggestions for basic rsync configuration

[Paul Slootman]

On Wed 19 Mar 2008, Peter Heiss wrote:
> 
> Now I have a new situation, the linux OS was reinstalled (it crashed after a
> bad restart) on the remote linux box where I was working with rsync. I have
> reconfigured everything back to the way tit was before and I am now getting
> a new error with the following command:
> 
> # rsync -zav --progress <remote-server-ip>:/random/file-or-directory
> /random/file-or-directory
> @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
> @    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 the RSA host key has just been changed.

Obviously the host key has changed, as you reinstalled the OS...

> Offending key in /root/.ssh/known_hosts:1
[...]
> again through yast and all that. I have checked "/root/.ssh/known_hosts",
> and the folder doesnt exist under the "root" directory. I also installed ssl

On the client system? I.e. not the newly reinstalled system? I find that
hard to believe.

This is a simple ssh issue, nothing to do with rsync.


Paul Slootman