On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 09:41:28AM -0500, George Horvath (Scotia Capital) wrote: > into this. We are using RSA host keys that get dumped on the client server What's a "client server"? > by the package install script. The new server will have the same IP address > and hostname Then copy the host keys over from the old server to the new one. They're typically in /etc/ssh/ssh_host_*key* or /usr/local/etc/ssh_host_*key* (the location is configured at compile time). Make sure the permissions are correct on the new server. You don't want the private keys to be readable.