SSH (ssh
and other programs that run it, such as scp
and sftp
) stores its keys in ~/.ssh/known_keys
by default. It identifies hosts by their keys.
In this case, you presumably have one of those keys (ECDSA or RSA) stored in that file and your SSH configuration (~/.ssh/config
or else the system-wide copy in /etc/ssh/ssh_config
or a similar location) is using StrictHostKeyChecking
(see its entry in ssh_config(5)).
When you connect to the other one, run it like this (correct the key algorithm if I guessed it wrong):
sftp -v -o HostKeyAlgorithms=rsa-sha2-256 -o StrictHostKeyChecking=ask test-user@localhost
Ask
is the default for this setting. With it enabled, you should then be prompted to save the second key. You won't need it in subsequent connections since both keys will be saved.