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Noriko Yamamoto
Noriko Yamamoto

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What to do when you receive a message from GitHub saying WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED!

If you pish to GitHub and receive a message like this:

% git push
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
@    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
SHA256:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.
Please contact your system administrator.
Add correct host key in /Users/xxxx/.ssh/known_hosts to get rid of this message.
Offending RSA key in /Users/xxxx/.ssh/known_hosts:2
Host key for github.com has changed and you have requested strict checking.
Host key verification failed.
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.
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By using the following command, you can remove all keys belonging to GitHub from the known_hosts file.

$ ssh-keygen -R github.com
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After that, you will have a successful push.

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