My company will replace a server running RH 7.2 with a box running RH 9. Hundreds of clients connect to the old box using SSH v. 1. The new box will have the same name and the same IP address, and will host SSH v. 1 sessions with the same clients. We have done as much as we can to make it look like the old server, but if we allow it to run SSHd on its locally-generated private keys the clients will not connect, claiming it is a man-in-the-middle attack. For the client, it is only a matter of changing the known_hosts entry referencing this server and allowing each client to rebuild the key. However, I am not in a position to modify hundreds of computers in several remote locations. Is there any way to move the private keys from the old server to the new server, so the clients accept the connection without modification? Simply moving the keys as-is does not work -- I have tried it. (I also made sure permissions and ownership were correct and checked md5sums.) Any advice appreciated. John Reese jwreese0 at comcast.net