Introduction
Hey, it’s been a long time since my last post. It’s been a difficult time for me in the past few months and I’m very happy to return to update my blog! Let’s start with a news about Github!
What’s the problem?
Today when I try to push my code to my github, I got an error:
1 | Host key for github.com has changed and you have requested strict checking. |
Yes I havn’t pushed my code to Github since January. And I searched about this error. I found a post from Github Blog talking about this issue. It’s becasue the public key of Github, which is stored in my laptop is expired. So I am unable to push my code because it failed for the authentication.
It’s very unusual because website seldom change their RSA key but it does happen.
Why does Github update RSA key?
Github says it’s becuase their previous RSA private key is exposed. As we all know that the private key and the public key is a pair. Without a secured private key, the communication between Github and our laptop will be no longer safe. There could be man-in-the-middle attack. So Github need to change to use a new pair of RSA key and that’s why we also need to use the new public key.
How to solve it?
It’s pretty easy!
Remove the old one
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$ ssh-keygen -R github.com
This command may create a new file named
known_hosts.oldto store the original content.Then add the new one to
known_hosts1
github.com ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABgQCj7ndNxQowgcQnjshcLrqPEiiphnt+VTTvDP6mHBL9j1aNUkY4Ue1gvwnGLVlOhGeYrnZaMgRK6+PKCUXaDbC7qtbW8gIkhL7aGCsOr/C56SJMy/BCZfxd1nWzAOxSDPgVsmerOBYfNqltV9/hWCqBywINIR+5dIg6JTJ72pcEpEjcYgXkE2YEFXV1JHnsKgbLWNlhScqb2UmyRkQyytRLtL+38TGxkxCflmO+5Z8CSSNY7GidjMIZ7Q4zMjA2n1nGrlTDkzwDCsw+wqFPGQA179cnfGWOWRVruj16z6XyvxvjJwbz0wQZ75XK5tKSb7FNyeIEs4TT4jk+S4dhPeAUC5y+bDYirYgM4GC7uEnztnZyaVWQ7B381AK4Qdrwt51ZqExKbQpTUNn+EjqoTwvqNj4kqx5QUCI0ThS/YkOxJCXmPUWZbhjpCg56i+2aB6CmK2JGhn57K5mj0MNdBXA4/WnwH6XoPWJzK5Nyu2zB3nAZp+S5hpQs+p1vN1/wsjk=
