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Solve Warning: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED

Do you got an error that remote host can’t be accessed? like this? “It is also possible that a host key has just been 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 ECDSA key sent by the remote host is
SHA256:XXXX.
Please contact your system administrator.
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ECDSA host key for XXXX has changed and you have requested strict checking.
Host key verification failed....

To solve this, We can delete the offending key from the known_hosts

ssh-keygen -R "HOST IP ADDRESS"
unix shell