WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED!

ACM.99 Verifying that you are making an SSH connection to the host you think you are

Teri Radichel
Cloud Security

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In the last post we took a look at some reasons why you might not be able to connect to a VM On AWS. I explained public and private IPs and a bit about route tables.

While resolving issues with our connection, we got some warnings. This post is going to explain what those warnings mean and how they could be resolved.

Have you ever been logging into an host and seen this error message and wondered what it meant?

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Teri Radichel
Cloud Security

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