avoiding 'authenticity' prompt

[David T-G]

Bob, et al --

Hi, Bob!  Small world :-)

...and then Bob Proulx said...
% 
% David T-G wrote:
% > % >Might I ask for a hint or two to set me on my way?
% 
% Having been through this myself let me suggest the following.
% 
%   ssh -oBatchmode=yes -oStrictHostKeyChecking=no -oCheckHostIP=no -oUserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null

Thanks!  It's the StrictHostKeyChecking that really helped, and I've just
symlinked known_hosts to dev null directly :-)  I'll have a look at the
other options as well.


% 
% Basically for this cron task I never keep the keys around.  They might
% change.  So they are useless and I store them in /dev/null.

Yep.


% 
% Bob


Thanks!

:-D
-- 
David T-G
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