Deleting from .ssh/known_hosts

[Adam Funk]

On 2007-01-26, Michael Satterwhite wrote:

> One of the sites I support has changed hosting companies. As a result, the ssh 
> fingerprint has changed in known_hosts, preventing me from using ssh to 
> connect to it.
>
> The fix, of course, would be to let ssh create a new fingerprint. To do that, 
> I need to delete the fingerprint for the old host. As the host names aren't 
> in clear text, I have no idea how to go about this. I'm sure it's easy, but 
> I've looked in the man page, and it isn't obviously documented.

Wow, when did that change?  I'm sure they used to be in clear text.