On Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 8:53 PM Jeremy Ardley <[email protected]> wrote: > [...] > However I've found the cause of the problem, but not necessarily > resolved the bug. > > For some reason on my journey /etc/ssh/ssh_config had acquired > > UserKnownHostsFile /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts > > changing to > > # UserKnownHostsFile /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts
That should probably be GlobalKnownHostsFile, not UserKnownHostsFile. >From the the ssh_config(5) man page at https://manpages.debian.org/bullseye/openssh-client/ssh_config.5.en.html : GlobalKnownHostsFile Specifies one or more files to use for the global host key database, separated by whitespace. The default is /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts, /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts2. But not setting GlobalKnownHostsFile gets you the default, which appears to be the same as you specified in your config file. Jeff
