OSX/python app overwriting my SSH Keys...

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has anyone ever experienced this?

everytime i boot up, my rsa ssh keys don't work... why? because they get overridden by some python app....

i looked all over the googles and haven't found anything about this yet, it's a real big problem if you understand what they do.

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Care to tell us what app is causing this? What tells you this is a Python app?
 
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because i did a bit of research on what i found. and didn't really get too far

my ssh key was overwritten with a much shorter key and was stamped with
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# SSH host keys collected by paramiko
 

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Paramiko appears to be a Python module so my question for you is what apps have you installed lately?
 
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s3hub, gitX ? and i have mobileme.

my other iMac experiences the same issue. maybe this occurs for a lot of people just no one notices it... ?
 

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Perhaps because I would guess that 95% of Mac users don't use SSH nor even know what it is.

I unfortunately can not be of any further help. My only advice would be to find what apps use SSH and uninstall them one at a time to see if the problem ceases. If it does, you can at least narrow your search down to the application causing your problems.
 

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