avoiding 'authenticity' prompt

[Ben Lindstrom]

On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, David T-G wrote:

> Damien, et al --
>
> ...and then Damien Miller said...
> %
> % David T-G wrote:
> % >
> ...
> % > Within this network we can trust and believe all machines, so I would
> % > like to set a flag that causes the new host key, whatever it may be, to
> % > be added to the known_hosts file and we move on.
> %
> % You could start by reading the manpages. You may be pleasantly
> % surprised.
>
> I'm sure I would be.  I have read the man pages a few times now but do
> acknowledge that I certainly may have overlooked the answer every time.
> I have just checked again and neither of the strings'authenticity' nor
> 'key.fingerprint' appear in my FreeBSD
>
>   OpenSSH_3.5p1 FreeBSD-20030201, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090701f
>
> nor Solaris
>
>   OpenSSH_3.8.1p1-sshrc, OpenSSL 0.9.7d 17 Mar 2004
>
> man pages.  I trust that I should be looking in the ssh(1) pages and not
> at the sshd(8) or otherwise esoteric pages.
>
> Might I ask for a hint or two to set me on my way?
>
I suggest ssh_config and "StrictHostKeyChecking".

- Ben