I need to be able to turn off host checking entirely

[Darren Tucker]

John Summerfield wrote:
> I'm getting thoroughly sick of the checking the ssh command does, and
> I've turned off as much as I can figure out, but I still get this:
> [summer at numbat summer]$ ssh possum
> @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
> @    WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED!     @
> @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
> IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE IS DOING SOMETHING NASTY!

How about:
$ cat .ssh/config
Host possum-linux1
  HostKeyAlias possum-linux1

Host possum-linux2
  HostKeyAlias possum-linux2

or:
$ ln -s /dev/null .ssh/known_hosts

		-Daz.