SSH holds fingerprints of your remote machines in the known_hosts file. Sometimes you might need to remove or update one of those entries. Jack Wallen shows you how.

Again, you will be asked for your SSH key password, and the file will be pulled from the server and copied to the local machine. SEE: How to Add an SSH Fingerprint to Your known_hosts File in Linux.

The ssh-keygen command also asks you to protect your GitHub SSH key with an optional passphrase. It’s permissible to leave the passphrase blank, so click Return when prompted.. Connect to GitHub with ...