WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED!

[Lloyd Peltier]

Hello all,

I am getting this error whenever I try to do anything with Bitbucket. All of my personal repos and all the team stuff I am working on.

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@ WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! @
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IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE IS DOING SOMETHING NASTY!
Someone could be eavesdropping on you right now (man-in-the-middle attack)!
It is also possible that a host key has just been changed.
The fingerprint for the RSA key sent by the remote host is
SHA256:eYTtqNXZHMS/TJH1nE4VyvIuF1b3FJDfMH/0D16SFus.
Please contact your system administrator.
Add correct host key in /c/Users/PEL6FH/.ssh/known_hosts to get rid of this mess
Offending RSA key in /c/Users/PEL6FH/.ssh/known_hosts:4
Host key for [sourcecode.socialcoding.bosch.com]:7999 has changed and you have r
Host key verification failed.
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.

How can I fix this? I am not a git guru, please be as explicit as possible in any responses. It seems like I need to copy the host .ssh key to my known_hosts file?  Where do I find this host key?

Thank you in advance for any help you can provide.

[Lloyd Peltier · Accepted solution]

I found a solution that works.

• Go to C:\Users\<your_username>\.ssh
• Open the known_hosts.txt file
• Delete the whole section for the RSA key that is giving you the error
• Then you should be able to use git to clone or fetch or whatever you were trying to do.