Flag to turn off host-key check

[Michael Loftis]

--On June 20, 2008 11:04:18 AM -0700 Tobias Karlsson 
<jtkarlsson1973 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Let me start by saying that I think OpenSSH is a great tool and thanks to
> everyone contributing to it's existence.
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> However, I have a request:
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> I'd like to have a flag that ignores the check of the host key. I'm fully
> aware of that this opens up for man-in-the-middle attacks and that there
> is a risk of lazy users mis-using this feature, but it would be very
> useful for us using SSH in a lab environment where the host key of the
> equipment frequently changes.

StrictHostKeyChecking [yes|no|ask] defaults to ask.

ssh -o 'StrictHostKeyChecking no'
or in ~/.ssh/config/.


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