Why does my ssh client give me a scary warning?
Your SSH client (e.g., ssh, sftp) may give you a warning the first access to the new mason after July 9th, 2006. This is expected and ok because the mason administrator changed the host identification. Acknowledge the warning and continue. If you access mason from several SSH clients and/or systems, then you should receive a warning from each instance. If you receive the warning more than once from the same SSH client and/or system, then notify system@gmu.edu. This is an example of a warning… WARNING: HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! 1. Either the administrator of the remote host computer has changed the host identification, or 2. The SSH protocol has been upgraded from SSH1 to SSH2, or 3. SOMEONE COULD BE EAVESDROPPING ON YOU RIGHT NOW (main-in-the-middle attack)! It is NOT RECOMMENDED to connect to the remote host computer until you have contacted the system administrator and found out why the host identification has changed. The fingerprint of the host public key is: “asdf-asdf-se
