avoiding 'authenticity' prompt

Dan Kaminsky dan at doxpara.com
Wed Nov 10 17:17:40 EST 2004


Darren Tucker wrote:

> David T-G wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
>
> Try "man ssh_config" and look for StrictHostKeyChecking.
>
> The ssh_config(5) page documents the config file options and is 
> mentioned several times in the ssh(1) page, so I don't think it's 
> esoteric.


Heh.  *I* didn't know StrictHostKeyChecking had a "no" option.  I 
thought "no" was the default, not "ask".  When did we get trinary options?

--Dan






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