avoiding 'authenticity' prompt

Dan Kaminsky dan at doxpara.com
Sun Nov 14 18:24:04 EST 2004


Bob Proulx wrote:

>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
>
>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.
>  
>
And of course, all these options can be thrown in /etc/ssh_config .

What's the present status of putting SSH host keys in DNS, btw?  Anyone 
know?

--Dan




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