Re: PuTTY: Server key initialization problem.

From: PT Wang (news1003_at_paultwang.com)
Date: 01/31/04 

Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 00:31:48 GMT

"Charles Wilcox" <willo@wpi.edu> wrote in message
news:Pine.LNX.4.58.0401301145500.18478@ccc2.WPI.EDU...
> I get this error when I try to use PuTTY to SSH to my server:
>
> ---------------------------
> PuTTY Fatal Error
> ---------------------------
> Server's host key did not match the signature supplied
> ---------------------------

Did you try to delete the host key info from the registry?

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY\SshHostKeys

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