Host key verification failed

[taylan kurtkaya]

hi everbody,

i am using HP-UX 11.31
my problem is while iam using ssh with root normally works but while i am using ssh with any other user it gives an attention

Host key verification failed.



#whoami
root
#ssh localhost
Password:
#su - taylan



$ whoami
taylan
$ ssh localhost
Host key verification failed.


Please help,
Best Regards

[Suraj K Sankari]

HI,
Did you tried like this ?

$ ssh taylan@localhost


Suraj

[taylan kurtkaya]

hi Suraj

yes i tried, not only ssh to localhost but also i can't ssh anywhere with users instead of root

$ ssh taylan@localhost
Host key verification failed.

thanks

[Turgay Cavdar]

Did you try to clear known_hosts file in user's .ssh directory?

[taylan kurtkaya]

yes i've cleared known_hosts file, but i am taking the same problem.

[Turgay Cavdar · Accepted solution]

Can you send the output of:
ssh -vvv localhost

[taylan kurtkaya]

hi turgay,
i have attached tho output of ssh -vvv localhost.
thanks, best regards

[Turgay Cavdar]

Probably /dev/tty permissions are changed on your system, it should be like this:
$ ll /dev/tty
crw-rw-rw- 1 bin bin 207 0x000000 Aug 28 10:41 /dev/tty

[taylan kurtkaya]

hi Turgay
i have changed /dev/tty permissions and problem solved.

thank you.

[taylan kurtkaya]

i have changed /dev/tty permissions and my problem has been solved.